77 Quotes by Johann Johannsson

I was completely fascinated by the studio process and layering sounds and creating soundscapes out of layering massive squalls of sound.

There's very little synthesized sound in the 'Arrival' score. There are a couple of synthesized beats in there, but 99 percent of the sounds in there are acoustic in origin and either played or sung by a musician or a singer and recorded in a room.

I think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very revolutionary thing to say.

I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness.

The more effort you put into something, the more you get out of it.