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Dan Deacon (born August 28, 1981) is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland. Deacon is renowned for his live shows, where large-scale audience participation and interaction is often a major element of the performance.[citation needed] Since 2003, he has released eight albums under several different labels.

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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

People, Want, Feels, Thing, Make

I thought I wouldn't enjoy the business side of music, but it's fun because it is completely - like running a DIY venue was the same exact thing but just on a smaller scale and a DIY tour is the same thing. You're just running a small business. Like we live within the paradigm of capitalism. Even if I'm going in playing these anarcho spaces, I still have to buy gas.

Fun, Running, Small Business, Smaller, Thought

I do subscribe to the 2012 theory, but regardless of the date, it's hard not to notice that humans are polluting the earth with humans, that soon it'll be difficult to get water to people and find land to grow food on. The infrastructures that hold up cities are going to be harder to maintain, and the resources that make it possible are going to be harder to find. I'm not even talking about oil; I'm talking about, like, steel.

People, Water, Earth, Grow, Food

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

Fun, Goal, Nice, Perform, Performances

I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and read your book and it was beautiful. " Or, "Yeah, I went to the movies and all I did was watch the movie because that's all you could do at the movies. " Where with music, it's like, "Ugh, I love your music. I listen to it while I'm jogging thinking about how I hate my body. " But it is also the privilege of being a musician is you can have your music in this documented form and play it live and that's, I think, what draws me to it the most.

Author, Beautiful, Book, Envy, Hate, Playwright

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music. I came out like, "How is this going to be more than a hobby I'm always paying off debt for?" I could've sat at a desk and written pieces for orchestras that never would have been played, or I could've written music for me as a performer. I play electronics, and the places I was gonna be playing were bass clubs and house parties.

Party, School, House, Gonna, Music

To get large groups of people to dance, there needs to be something accessible about the music. The beat can't be too esoteric, but unless we're talking about prog or etherealist composition, I think there's something simplistic about most music. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice? Those people aren't really listening; they're judging a song off of a beat, off of a pulse.

Large, Simple, Smart, Song, Unless

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

Goal, Made, Solo, Time, Performer

I think the best live shows take you out of the moment into somewhere else and I really. . . This can be true of recorded music too but my favorite live experience is sort of this transcendendent - is that the word? Transcendental?

Moment, Moments, My Favorite, Sort, Think, Thinking

It's hard not to sell out because once, you know, I grew up with working-class parents who definitely, definitely would be disappointed if I didn't take particular jobs being like, "What are you talking about? I would have worked years for that money in like, actual physical labor. " So there's a privilege to not selling out. You already have to be in a position where you can look at that money and not care about it.

Care, Like, Look, Parent, Selling

I always want my mouth to be like two steps ahead of my brain and I want my hands to move without thinking. I want to be able to dive into my computer or use my controllers without having to be, like, "Hmm, what would be a good choice here?" You just want music to happen like the same way the sweat's rolling off my face.

Choices, Good, Happen, Like, Moving, Thinking

I think there is going to be a large paradigm shift in a few years, and it could either be to a new age of enlightenment and unity and we'll be raised to a new level of consciousness, or it could be a return to a dark age of kings and mass, open oppression followed by a die-off of human culture.

Dark, Thinking, Unity, Raised, Shift

I think a lot of electronic musicians are drawn to starting with texture because the whole reason we're working with electronics is to try to create new sounds or sounds that cannot be created acoustically. When you're doing that, it's nice to be able to just create a different palette for every single song. I feel like a lot of electronic music sounds like. . . Each album sounds like a compilation more than it does a band.

Create, Electronic, Nice, Song, Sounds, Thinking

The smaller the instrument or more hidden it is such as electronics, the more esoteric it becomes and in my mind becomes boring watching someone go like this and that has no direct. . . It's just a complete abstract motion, not attach to any sound.

Mind, Boring, Abstract, Sound, Like

Email is a mind-killer. Like, I really think getting a smartphone is the worst move I ever did in being a musician because while we've just been talking my phone's vibrated like 15 times and I only get push notifications for like two apps, so either like a bunch of houses are going up for sale right now or someone's like, "Why aren't you emailing me back?" It's just hard to stay in the moment. I can understand why people go to retreats to write and stuff like that but I don't have the time.

Back, Moving, Smartphone, Think, Thinking, Writing

I think the hardest part is figuring out what to say no to because the whole start of your career is just begging anybody to let you perform or to contribute music to something. Then it's like turning on a faucet because the moment it's on, people are like, "Oh, you can do stuff? All right. Well, you want to do it every single thing?

Thinking, People, Moments, Faucet, Turning

When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly.

Ability, Become, Gets, Jobs, Music Is, Sudden

It's weird how people hate getting older.

Getting Older, Hate, People, Weird

You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.

Box, Doughnut, Doughnuts, Gonna, Gourmet, People

Finishing a song is definitely the hardest part. It's, you know, you can polish it forever and then whittle it down into something it wasn't and be like, "I need to build it back up," which is why some tracks have 400 versions. But I guess you know when it's done when. . . I have a maximalist approach to sound when I can't find any more space to put new sounds.

Forever, Hardest, Part, Song, Track

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