Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer

The deeper you get into the process, the more you realize this idea of man and machine — of disappearing into the computer — becomes a form of automatic writing. Sleight of hand. You almost don’t feel conscious when you’re working. For me, that’s the tipping zone into the man-machine idea. When I got into electronic music, I recognized early on tha

Jeff Mills documentary Exhibitionist, a masterclass in making music with the Roland TR-909.

In fact, he was a romantic in the strict sense of the term, one who believed that music should be composed and played through the “addition of strangeness to beauty.”

Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit, a

Le compositeur, qui depuis le Conservatoire avait défendu farouchement son indépendance, était érigé en maître à penser. Cette distinction, après tant d’années obscures, aurait pu flatter son orgueil s’il avait eu un caractère de chef de file. Or, c’est un individualiste et il n’imagine pas qu’un autre musicien puisse suivre le même système que lui

“Functioning as a composer was his whole world,” Donald Mitchell recalled. “The creativity had to come first.… Everyone, including himself, had to be sacrificed to the creative act.”