Quotes from Keith Fullerton Whitman

With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.

I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.