How do you see the balance between art and science
stuff – so much EQing – so much mono / stereo – so much dynamic processing, but you know – I think we just like that. We love MISANTHROP: Because we always try and technology, and the thing about production keep a conceptual focus on everything we is that if you really know your tools, it leaves do, the deeper you get into an idea – into a you so much more space to be creative as theme, the more those lines get blurred. What you can home in on a certain sound in your starts out as an artistic idea takes on more head rather than working off trial and error or and more aspects of scientific perception as just sitting down to paint without a clear idea you try and learn the nature of that idea and of how to best manipulate ideas into reality. express it through cold technology. It’s almost Now that approach can have great results as as if the process gets more and more scientific experimentation can lead you into areas you’d as the music gets constructed – and then as all never consciously explore, but there comes the pieces come back together into a whole – a point where you just need the ability to it’s suddenly back in the artistic realm. translate ideas effectively and open up more space for creative thinking rather than being focused on how to bend the machines to a How do you construct such precisely certain point. We do put a lot of detail into our designed layers of detail and manage them productions and there is a lot of control , but systematically of course if you want soul – there’s only so far technology alone can take you. Wisdom has PHACE: Our production projects are pretty its place but wisdom alone does sacrifice raw big it has to be said and they can be difficult to emotion. navigate sometimes. There’s so much intricate