dan bastille interview 2013

"Dev from Radio 1 meets singer-songwriter Dan Smith from Bastille and his producer Mark Crew to discuss writing music using MIDI technology. Dan explains how most of Bastille’s Number 1 album ‘Bad Blood’ was written using MIDI technology and talks through their process of creating the track ‘Laura Palmer’. Dan speaks about how he began by creating a single chord sequence on a MIDI keyboard. He then demonstrates the ease of reprogramming the notes to have a sound of his choosing, from strings to timpani drum. Mark then shows how they developed the rough idea into a full song, building up the layers on the computer one sound at a time, until they felt happy." http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0178b0b