The Chester French Blog

You can read the full interview here, but check out this section, where Max talks about making new music for Chester French:

DH: Speaking of: Max, you like to experiment with instruments. Have
you been doing that lately?

MD: One thing I just started doing that I’d never done before is working with samples, which my interest in instruments kind of kept me from doing. The way I look at it, that’s building your own instrument, taking a sound that you find and making it your own. And it’s way cheaper than buying more instruments.

DH: What sorts of things have you been sampling?

MD: I’m mainly taking a sound and figuring out a way to play music with it. It’s more a sonic thing and less of a music-phrase idea. So far I’ve sampled strings, throat singing, this Argentinian tango song from the 40’s. Just sounds that I haven’t heard before and can
re-purpose for whatever musical idea that I have.

-CF