Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswellis an American bassist, producer and record label owner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth12 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
sides jazz tradition
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
atmosphere sound environment
The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
exactly looking time
I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.
technology viable
I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.
decoration music
I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
generic less music noise people pop until whether
I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.
opposites computer electronic-music
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
ideas guy style
Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
people
People are afraid of things they don't understand.
thinking years play
Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.
mean thinking space
Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.
people together projects
I put projects together. I put people together.
people achievement done
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
texture sound elements
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.