If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."
Aphex TwinWhen I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.
Aphex TwinIt sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
Aphex TwinYou're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.
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