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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
When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.
Johann Johannsson
Music
Needs
Writing
Important
Composer
About
More
Part
Feel
Like
Important Part
Very
Than
Just
Just One
Creating
Team
Many
Film
Film Music
Basically
Filmmaker
Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.
Johann Johannsson
Enjoy
Medium
Collaborative
Very
Much
Film
I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music and for what music can do in a film.
Johann Johannsson
Music
Good
Strong
Sense
Enjoy
Good Sense
Feel
Talented
Very
Much
Working
Who
Film
Filmmakers
If you look at my career, you'll find that the same record doesn't show up more than once. I try to challenge myself with every project.
Johann Johannsson
Myself
You
Try
Challenge
Every
Project
Once
Find
Record
More
Look
Up
Than
Same
Show
Career
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