Your music conjures such a sense of place.
It's important for me to have the surroundings in the sound somehow.
It seems like you draw a lot of inspiration from settings and try to bring that into your music. I'm thinking specifically of “The Bell Tower,” and how that feels like a little vignette. I know you were inspired by holy sites for previous albums. It’s a recurrent theme in your work.
It is. It's not how I want every piece of music, or my work, to become, but it's happened. When I love art and music, it's when I feel it's completely taken me over; that “zoom-out” feeling. I want to create a spacious depth in sound because that's what gives me that perspective, when that dimension is there.
It's not like, “I need inspiration. I'm going to go to some burial mounds and write about them.” It's more that you get transported by the sense of being immersed in a place.
Yeah, exactly.
You have a unique combination of analog and digital elements in your recordings and compositions.
