77 Quotes by Johann Johannsson

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in a way, you stop becoming a composer and become a storyteller instead. You tell the story with the most appropriate themes. How you approach these things is a very personal matter, but your goal is to tell the story first.

I tend to spend quite a lot of time on the film scores that I do.

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

I'm very interested in voice synthesis and vocoders in general.

Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure?

I don't watch TV that much, but I like to get series on DVD and watch them all back-to-back.

Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art.

I'm interested in extremes, in many ways.