He carves sounds out of the instrument that you didn't know were there.
And carving out employees sounds sensible.
In her shed the concept of a sound carving begins to take shape.
"I like the idea that sound carving suggests there's something there already".
Founded in 1998, by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer, and Jürgen Paape, the label put its hometown of Cologne on the map while carving out a delicate sound that fits somewhere between house, techno, and the sort of heavenly, melodic absolution proffered by folks like Gui Boratto, DJ Koze, and even Animal Collective's Panda Bear.
A dim view of the NHS, where "a football team of nurses" can't even unfold the operating table, also sounds carved from experience.
In her artistic practice, Kim strives to reclaim sound, to carve out a space where sound doesn't revolve around some borrowed etiquette, but instead around her own distinct experience.
It was a sound carved of pure rage, a white-noise skin of fury stretched across ancient bones of sadness.
Neither rock'n'roll nor hip-hop, the album is cinematic and cerebral, funky and fussy, its sound carved by Mr Costello's clear-cut tenor and Questlove's percussive snare.
The story is all the more remarkable for the fact that Williamson is one of the great rock guitarists, having carved out a sound that is at once threatening and glamorous.
