Trying Everything on: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's Baker's Dozen | Page 6 of 14 | The Quietus

Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

This is a song that I knew how to play on classical guitar so it’s something I’m very fond of for that reason. At Berkeley [University of California] you would have to do a proficiency test every semester, and that was one of the songs that you could play. I thought the sounds were all being created with a voice at first, and then when I began researching it, I discovered that it was a theremin. I didn’t know what a theremin was at that time. So I found out who she was and what she was playing, and I would say that was a bridge into electronic music and starting that curiosity for me of looking at other ways to make music. I jumped from her to Delia Derbyshire, and then it all just unravelled.

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