Florian

I remember when we met you told me about this performance art piece by Kristin Lucas called Refresh, where she legally changes her name to the same name. This piece talks about bureaucracy and corporations, but also actualizing and refreshing yourself.

I find that it’s in this search for aesthetic satisfaction that so many of the best lessons are found. I’m not talking about ornamentation or bells and whistles. I’m taking about the beauty of the four Cs: Clarity, cohesion, consistency, and conciseness. If you have the eye, you’ll recognize them easily (even if getting there isn’t quite so easy).

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I want to be what you saw in me

I’ve felt this in my bones: relationships that have remade me, expanded me, taught me.

the way certain people draw out a version of you that didn’t exist before they arrived. They witness you, and thus, rearrange you. In their presence, words you didn’t know you knew tumble out. Your thoughts sharpen, colours seem richer, you inhabit yourself more fully.

Just as the title of an abstract painting by Pollock or Rothko won’t tell you about the actual painting but ... will set up a resonance, the same goes for Aphex’s titles. They act as word graphics, name images which hover in your memory as you listen. ‘I just really like the look of certain words. I try and match words up. Sometimes they exist. Mos... See more

“The hardest part is getting the sounds to match; it never comes out quite the same. When you have a nightmare or a strange dream, and you recount it to someone, it often sounds terrible. The same goes for sounds – they tend to lose their essence.

“I’ve been able to do it since I was little. Over the years, I’ve explored every possibility in my dreams – the only thing I haven’t attempted is to kill myself. That’s a bit shady.”

The best artists are often those who don’t consider themselves artists; conversely, those who do tend to be the most pretentious and annoying. [laughs] Their priorities are misplaced – they create art for the sake of being artists rather than out of genuine passion. Many jungle producers were car mechanics or painters and decorators – really down-t... See more