Dat Politics interview

Dat Politics

by Alessandro Ludovico

‘Digital with human touch’, this is often a synthetic description of your music. Do you think we’re getting used by interfacing ourselves with machines in a more and more symbiotic relationship, or we’re losing part of our primordial instincts?
DAT Politics is a three members band, it’s quite important! We’re using very simple softwares. We’re not digital slaves. In studio or on stage, we’re just using our computers as any kind oftools / instruments and really working as very classical rock band, we’re not immersed into programming codes… There are a lot of exchange between human voices, acoustic sounds and pure digital abstraction… This relation between us and all these sounds which belongs to our hard disks is obvious and the laptop is just a kind of peripheric…

Do the visual aspect of sound (sound waves, sequencing structure), visualized on the LCD screens influences your music in any way? And, if this is true, how?
Maybe, it’s also one aspect of our working method, but, our favorite software ‘sound club’ is all made of squares and lines, all this pixel can’t get off of our heads anymore… Maybe this influence our way to do music and create images? But it’s definitely influence the aspect of our eyes!

The laptop is gaining its definitive status of ‘(electronic) music instrument’. Do you think laptop music is becoming a ‘cultural paradigm’?
Nowadays, laptop music doesn’t mean anything, of course there is a clich