![]() ![]() ![]() Can you tell us a little bit about what you do for live sets? (Don’t miss the spectacularly lo-fi film of “Insides” from Live at the ICA, London, below.)ĬDM: Not having seen your live show, knowing only your studio work, I’m looking forward to seeing you at Electric Zoo. I’m especially able to resonate with what he has to say about working with sound, and transitioning from a piano background to working as a producer – and I’m listening to his work from a fresh perspective after the combination. He shares here how he works live onstage and in the studio, talks about how Brian Eno got him hooked on the Kaoss Pad, and reveals his addiction to the tools he first used as a keyboard and resistance to software and hardware upgrades. Hopkins by phone from the UK, before he departed for New York and Electric Zoo. You can catch him Sunday at 1pm if you’re at the event. And we’ve seen him here recently with remix swaps with Four Tet and contributions to Eno’s upcoming Warp record.Ĭoming to the Electric Zoo Festival, the blowout Randall’s Island Labor Day weekend electronic party here in New York, he’s set to perform a straight-up, genuinely live set, complete with a small squadron of KAOSS Pads. He worked with director Peter Jackson, and has a sci-fi score on the way. He’s a frequent collaborator with Brian Eno, wand has worked with artists like Coldplay (who featured his music on their last album), Tunng, David Holmes, and Imogen Heap. Photo ( CC-BY-SA) Matt Biddulph.Ĭlassically trained as a pianist, musician and producer Jon Hopkins has one of the richest resumes in electronic music. It was a deep experience.Jon Hopkins performs live at the ICA. I want people to hear not just the recordings but to feel how it felt to be there and make them. But the importance of letting the outside world into the recordings is as present for me as ever, so there are layers of incidental noise, bird song, the sound of someone washing up in the studio kitchen - whatever was going on outside my room is included and even accentuated. I loved the simplicity of having my old upright piano be the centre of a whole record for the first time. It seems to me that melody is universal and the ones that I really connect to shine out irrespective of genre or context, whether from techno, folk or whatever. “Piano Versions is four minimal, ambient piano covers of songs I have loved for a long time but that come from very different places. On these versions, Hopkins used his upright piano as the centrepiece of the EP, whilst recording the ambient, environmental elements around it. The songs on the EP, originally by Roger & Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Luke Abbott and James Yorkston, are presented in a completely new context to their initial form. A collection of ambient piano covers from the critically acclaimed composer and producer Jon Hopkins. ![]()
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