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Arca Biography

Record producer

Arca, born in 1990, is a talented record producer with a unique musical style that blends various elements, winning the favor of music enthusiasts.

Feels Trying Flow Blank Session

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“Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.”

Trying Doe Done Might Pieces Music Is Organize Subconscious

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“I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music.”

Trying I Can Stuff Judging Subconscious Puke Not Judging Judging Myself

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“First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.”

Firsts My Own Live By

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“If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.”

Ifs Feels Trying Happens Sound Hours Five Pieces Drag Crave Frequency Mold Feels Right

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“There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the file.”

Ifs World Trying I Can Ideas Different Perspective Skins Sparks Files Entry Different Perspective

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“I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.”

Ideas Forget Listening Somewhere Else Transport

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“I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.”

People Trying Long Enough Might Used Enjoy Figures Bored Repeats Things Change

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“You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.”

Knows Next Receptive Animalistic

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“Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.”

Two Bigs Healing Anxiety Music Is Chaos Extremes Tension Theme Coming Back Two Extremes

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“You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.”

Way Two States Feelings Might Girl Felt Sides Powerful Boys Environment One Day Wake Up Raised Conservative Sensual Feminine Living My Life Masculine Trans Fertile Really Powerful

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“It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.”

Trying Humans Hard Areas Boxes Poetic Grey Reconcile Grey Areas

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“I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!”

Kind Long Use Lying Song Long Time Dear Darling Treaties Unspoken Never Lie Granny Pronouns

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“I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot.”

Giving Voice Interesting

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“There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.”

Reason Feelings Language Particular Breathing Frustration Clumsy Intonation

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“It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.”

Trying Wanted Order Practice Materials Texture Renounce

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“I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.”

Ifs Humans Use Voice Pieces Music Is Exciting Breathing Manipulate Human Voice

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“It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, because you want to understand yourself and what your psyche is creating.”

Ifs Want Beautiful Certain Process Growth Creating Something Beautiful

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“A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.”

Eye Findings Ashamed How To Love Love Myself

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“When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.”

Giving Hard Together Laughing Encouragement Nourishment New Friends

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“I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me that if I relied solely on creating a voice out of the music, then I might be able to reach something more profound.”

Ifs Hard Might Able Language Understanding Voice Creating Profound Hard Times Vocal English Language Understanding Myself Vocal Music

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“With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.”

Trying Song Healthy Titles Sense Of Humor Song Titles

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“Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.”

Ifs

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“I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music. If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away. There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the file.”

World Trying Different Hours Judging Perspective Skins Subconscious Different Perspective Puke

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“A few years ago, I had an interest in making things that felt more like "pieces." That was when I was making a lot of stuff that you could call beats, and it dawned on me that I could say much more nuanced, precise things if I tried to make them more composed. It sounds a bit corny, but I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.”

Interest Forget Listening Corny Transport

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“There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words that are close in meaning, yet what I'm trying to say is in between them, or it might be a little more layered and nuanced. Having this conversation with you is exciting, because I can feel you resonate, even though we're on the phone. That's really beautiful to me.”

Trying Beautiful Language Exciting Frustration Really Beautiful

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“A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye. And something I always find beautiful about Jesse's work is that he finds beauty without any calculation. People say that his work is dark, but he never sees it as such. For him it's all almost about educating people to process why they feel disgust.”

People Eye Beautiful Dark Ashamed Disgusting

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About the Author

Born: 1990
Known for: Record producer
Quotes: 27

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