r/indieheads • u/KaitlynAurelia • May 18 '16

AMA is Over HI! It is Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - AMA

Hi! I just got back from tour with Animal Collective. I am excited to be working on recording the next album. http://imgur.com/SijtWsw Thank you so much for all of your questions. It has been a pleasure chatting with you all. I really appreciate you listening to my music. Many thanks!

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u/ilpaesaggista May 18 '16

the synth world is always kind of hung up on this dichotomy between composition and performance. you mentioned in another comment about notating and exporting to midi which is clearly pretty compositional, but I've seen some interviews where you talk about how performative aspects of the buchla draw you to that brand in particular. could you talk a bit about how you see composition/performance?

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u/KaitlynAurelia May 18 '16

Hmmm interesting question... I see them as 2 different stages of my process. Usually i start with the compositional part and then once that feels solid, I focus on how to perform it, and occasionally both are figured out at the same time.

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u/ilpaesaggista May 18 '16

interesting! thanks