6. Herbert BrünSawdust
When I was doing computer music, the very first stuff I made I was not thinking about music at all, I was thinking purely about sonic synthesis, about the computer as an object. You can send someone to the moon with it, but it also has a form of synthesis built into it. So I was working with ways of eliciting sound from it, but not in a virtual way. It’s got a trackpad and keys, and that’s what I used, I wouldn’t allow myself any sequencing and it was a matter of writing into the code and pulling these sounds out and reworking them, and this was a very similar way of working to this Herbert Brun record. Sawdust is a form of synthesis he created. It’s not soulful, but I was fascinated by it. It’s beautiful, pure, you’re not using the computer as a tool, as a part of a studio.
