Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important. Arca More Quotes by Arca More Quotes From Arca It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately. Arca practice trying order I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot. Arca voice giving interesting If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away. Arca mold sound trying It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest. Arca grey-areas poetic trying There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the file. Arca perspective skins ideas You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive. Arca animalistic receptive next I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head. Arca somewhere-else listening ideas 'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted. Arca necessary more myself me I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience. Arca die me music important It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7. Arca grotesque body want believe I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated. Arca human better just think When I was about 13, and I would write in my journal, I'd be like, 'I just watched 'Spice World,' the Spice Girls movie, and I loved it.' Sometimes I would sign them with the name Xen. Arca loved name sometimes world I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile. Arca us things masculinity two When I was younger, I used to say, 'I'm not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.' For me, vulnerability is an act of uncovering. It's a revealing: the idea of putting aside your armour and allowing pain to enter. Arca i-am me music pain With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication. Arca fantasy lonely strong character That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to. Arca things growing-up space two When I was making 'Xen,' I was surprised at how introverted some of the songs were. I wasn't deliberately trying to go quieter, but I had to embrace it. Arca some go embrace trying Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music. Arca dreams best me music I've never written a happy love song. Arca never happy song love I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive. Arca weird being chaos alive
