Are there particular natural environments you’re trying to evoke?
It’s more just places that are fragments of real worlds. I think the tracks should be a new place where you can go to. It has to create its own world, its own place. But a lot of tracks on Black Noise remind me of this place we recorded in Switzerland. It was on a mountain, in a fragmented, deserted area, with strange sculptures of rocks that had been there for hundreds of years. Maybe this is the place where the music would relate to most. I’ve heard you mention that This Bliss concerns movement. How does Black Noise approach the idea of movement? Yeah, for me This Bliss was the tragedy of the human being in the moment, which is that you can’t move everywhere, you can’t move fast, and there is this certain bliss to it. But it’s also that you lose your focus on reality, you get disconnected from social structures. Black Noise was probably the opposite — about what’s there when you are rooted and focused and what is there when you listen. This principal of black noise, to listen to a s
