Michael Dumontier Quotes

• Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.

  Michael Dumontier

  Art, Play, Musical

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

  Michael Dumontier

  Giving, Trying, Credit

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• These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.

  Michael Dumontier

  Technology, Self, Auto Tune

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.

  Michael Dumontier

  Pyramids, Trying, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

  Michael Dumontier

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

  Michael Dumontier

  Art, Book, School

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A lot of my friends have been collectors, and I owe a lot to them. I'm always interested in sharing collections and learning that way. I used to trade tapes a lot. I still have a few friends who I trade music with, but it's hard to find the time. I miss that.

  Michael Dumontier

  Missing, Tape, Few Friends

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.

  Michael Dumontier

  Library, Done, Research

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.

  Michael Dumontier

  Writing, People, Drug

  Source: www.believermag.com

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