Excerpt from a YouTube interview ("He Made a Drum Machine Sound Human || Morgan Stevenson Cooper on Dilla Time PT. 3") where Morgan Stevenson Cooper and Chris Collins discuss the aesthetic value of mistakes in music production. Cooper reflects on James 'Dilla' as an influence and says his creative work now requires a 'happy mistake' to feel right.
But those mistakes man made, machine made mistakes were thrilling to James. They reminded him of messy house parties and the interminable rehearsals of his childhood in the discord of musical devotion in the sanctuary of Vernon Chapel, the unity made from the chaos of humans interacting, the sound of air stayed with him. It remained until he found a way to make those errors on purpose.
Ah.
Dilla. Man, I wish I could have met Dilla. Man, I wish I could have met Dyla.
Can you think of an example of something that you were creating that, in the moment, felt like a mistake, and then when you watched it back, it was like, oh, that's magic.
I'll be honest with you, man. It's like I'm at the point creatively, where if it doesn't have a happy mistake, it's not right.
