When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer.

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• Johann Johannsson:

  'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copen

• Johann Johannsson:

  Making 'Orphee' has been a true labour of love, one that has been a part of my life for six years,

• Johann Johannsson:

  One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the onl

• Johann Johannsson:

  I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.

• Johann Johannsson:

  I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

• Johann Johannsson:

  Silence can be very effective, and it gives the music space to breathe.

• Johann Johannsson:

  For me, 'Blade Runner' is one of the big influences in my life - I saw it when I was 13 or 14, when

• Johann Johannsson:

  That's one of the hardest parts of putting together an album - finding that concept, that unifying

• Johann Johannsson:

  Public speaking is something I fear more than death itself.

• Johann Johannsson:

  I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emo