Drew: The irony here is that now you can now buy from Ableton a sound suite that is a bunch of metal objects, and plastic objects, there’s already been a pristine sounding of a lot of different material objects.
Martin: And what a sad motherfucker buys that. For god’s sake people it’s not about convenience. Go get a microphone. Half the fun for me is recording these things in the first place.
Drew: To me the point is the poetics of your commitment to a particular object is a compositional decision, why wouldn’t you want to make that yourself? There’s never going to be a reproductive tract of a cow sound kit that you can buy from Ableton. Your missing out of the sound of a cow’s uterus filled with air and squeezed. You’re only going to do that if your starting from different poetics or a different agenda. And letting other people speak for you or thru, sadly is what seems to be happening a lot with electronic production right now.