Stine Janvin Motland

Fifteen Questions Interview with the duo Native Instrument (AKA Felicity Mangan & Stine Janvin Motland) mentions that both Felicity and Stine use the Roland SP404.

Production tools, from instruments to complex software environments, contribute to the compositional process. How does this manifest itself in your work? Can you describe the co-authorship between yourself and your tools?

Felicity: I am using a Roland 404 sampler at the moment as well as multi-track software that acts like a drawing board offering more possibilities for working with material and developing tracks.

Stine: Yeah, hardware is nice, more hands on and direct. We use the same sampler and I also use a delay for my voice, but we use software for editing and writing our music. We record everything live in the studio, often quite improvised, then choose parts that we like and structure those into separate tracks. These tracks become like scores, so we take them back into the studio and practice them in our rehearsals for a live show. How do you see the relationship between sound, space and performance and what are some of your strategies and approaches of working with them?