Depixelate

Scott Morgan, aka Loscil, is an ambient electronic musician, freelance composer, and music technologist. We about the relationship between music and place, critical self-judgment, his compositional strategies, the interplay between nature and industry, conceptual and non-conceptual creative approaches, catharsis, audiovisual integration, the tools he uses to compose, ways to redefine performance, his career history, how he structures his life as a freelancer, and more.

Lawrence English is an experimental composer, sound artist, listening researcher, curator, photographer, record label owner, and all around creative mastermind. We talk about his trip to Antarctica, listening, attention, synesthesia, accepting the unknown, place versus space, conceptual sonic expression, the weaponization of sound, growth of meaning, and making a career as an artist.