Zitat des Tages von Thomas Bangalter:
Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?
It's really interesting to just look at the career of a musician and a producer that went into many different genres and many different styles and many different places but always breaking the barriers between genres and at some point reinventing himself all along the way but also inventing things at the same time.
Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.
When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.
Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.
'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.
It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'
I remember when I was a kid, I would watch 'Superman', and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows.
There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.
Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.
The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording.
In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.
A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.
I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.
There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that's like the start of electronic music - there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for.
Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.
Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.
The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.