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Johann Johannsson
Icelander Composer
Born: Sep 19, 1969
Died: Feb 9, 2018
Like Me Music People Think You
Related authors: Frederic Chopin Gustav Mahler Hector Berlioz Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Parry Ludwig van Beethoven Oscar Levant Stephen Sondheim
Always really good audiences in Belgium. Johann Johannsson
Good Always Audiences Really Belgium
I don't watch TV that much, but I like to get series on DVD and watch them all back-to-back. Johann Johannsson
TV Like Get Them Much Series Watch
I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion. Johann Johannsson
Think Melancholy Kind Bad Unpleasant Emotion Misunderstood Necessarily
Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art. Johann Johannsson
Sad Art World Feeling Enjoy State Melancholy Complex More Emotion Tragic Very Same Being Much View Derives Actually
Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure? Johann Johannsson
Music People Speak Resonate Complex Unnecessarily Directly Obscure Emotional Emotional Level Simply Idea Without Does Being Should Use Level
I'm interested in extremes, in many ways. Johann Johannsson
Extremes Ways Interested Many
When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer. Johann Johannsson
Music Writing Think Solo Composer More Write Part Like Piece Than Personal Artists Team Film Album Filmmaker
I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies. Johann Johannsson
Think Harmonies Way Melodies Construct Feel Sound Certain
I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level. Johann Johannsson
Work Try Too Visceral Obscure Emotional Emotional Level Like Cerebral Level
I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation. Johann Johannsson
Ruins Remains Fascinated
I had three older sisters whose record collections I borrowed, so I was listening to The Velvet Underground as well as Bach and brass band music. Johann Johannsson
Music Listening Three Band Older Bach Collections Record Borrowed Had Velvet Underground Well Sisters Brass Whose
Very early on, I started improvising. I was more interested in the music that came out of me than any music I heard. Johann Johannsson
Music Me Out More Came Heard Very Than Any Improvising Interested Early Started
Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play. Johann Johannsson
Music You Sometimes Space Rare Approach Physical Seeing Write Practical Without Edited Narrative Occupy Any Often Being While Script Decisions Interested Film Based Play Images
Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive. Johann Johannsson
Distinctive Delicate Powerful Also Sound Very Brass
I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward my work. Johann Johannsson
Work Music Good Think Dimension Absolute Never Toward Been Very Which Creating Why Filmmakers
The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore. Johann Johannsson
Economic Idea Fit Model Just Anymore Should Things Last
Cheap electronics are not built to be repaired. They're just used and then discarded. Johann Johannsson
Cheap Discarded Built Just Then Used Electronics
The kind of industrial wasteland that you see in so much of Europe has a tremendous poignancy to me, especially when it's run down and you see the collapse and failure of this system. And also how nature reclaims it. Johann Johannsson
Nature Me Failure You Down Tremendous Collapse System Kind Run See Poignancy Industrial Also How Much Europe
A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra. Johann Johannsson
Music Tends Combine Lot Orchestra Electronics
I love 'Treasure.' It's one of my favourite albums. Johann Johannsson
Love Favourite Treasure Albums
Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday. Johann Johannsson
Music Future Made Yesterday Sonic Like Instruments Sound Electric Playing Pan
I don't really take vacations. Johann Johannsson
Take Really Vacations
To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist. Johann Johannsson
Myself To Be Honest See Particularly Artist European Honest
I was completely fascinated by the studio process and layering sounds and creating soundscapes out of layering massive squalls of sound. Johann Johannsson
Out Studio Massive Sound Sounds Process Creating Fascinated
I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness. Johann Johannsson
Life Art My Life Extreme Extremes Borders Crosses Attracted Am Limits Very Transcends Certain Works Boldness
I like to work with people that I find interesting and stimulating artistically, and the field in which they're perceived to work is secondary and not that relevant to me. Johann Johannsson
Work Me People Field Secondary Relevant Find Perceived Like Stimulating Which Interesting
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