My name is Sophie and I’m a music producer. That’s it.

It came from a desire to express both myself and the way I saw my environment. Ever since I was a child, I’ve been very sensitive to the things that were going on around me, so even if I didn’t understand them, I could talk about it through my music.

I’m just going with the flow.

All of those things you mentioned. Taking a look back, when I first heard the music that inspired me, it changed my way of thinking. It fundamentally shifted something in the way that I viewed the world. It’s not that I want my music to precisely tell people what to feel about the world; everyone should figure that out individually. But I do want to push my audience to question themselves.

The Pet Shop Boys have always been a big inspiration for me, especially their remixed work. They collaborated with DJs and producers from the underground, queer and Eurodance scenes. They also worked together with Jack Bond, the director who also shot the documentary about Salvador Dalí, with whom they created a feature-length semi-autobiographical surreal film. I have a lot of respect for them. Furthermore, I talk a lot about Autechre, they just keep getting better and better and that’s very inspiring to me. There are so many cases of musicians that start of great only to tail off later in their career. But Autchere have been making the most radical stuff the latest. Not to mention they’re queens of technology and sound design.

The first time I ever did a Sophie show, my audience existed out of five people and one of them came right in front of my face and put his middle finger up to me. I think he wanted to let me know that it bothered him, or somehow something bothered him. I see that as a compliment.

That’s what I’m into. I really love upbeat music such as disco and Europop, but I also love Autechre, which has a more dark sound. Both make me feel different things and I find myself in between these two musical directions.

Not really, no. I think words are dangerous and they are weapons. It’s more caring, more concise, but also more radical to speak to someone’s feelings directly with music.

I can be pretty bossy but I also love my friends and I respect them and their views. They are knowledgeable on certain topics that I just don’t have the answer to, and so I need the answer from them. So the actual brief will vary greatly depending on the person. I always try to work with people that share a similar mindset; they are the people that I look up to and who also believe in me. I think that is the most important element in a collaboration.

I’m really happy you see it that way because many people don’t notice it. As for the results, we are just starting to get to work. There isn’t any clear result yet but I hope my music will inspire change in the future.

I’m quite clear on one thing: what I don’t want to do is alienate people. Trans is inclusive and, in a way, everyone is trans.

The artists you mentioned are really amazing, but I’ve also done a lot of collaborations that people are less aware of, where I learned a lot and also just had a lot of fun. Right now, I just really want to work with my friends. Kim Petras, BB Borelli and Charlie are the best songwriters in the world and the most fun people to work with. I also started to do some work with Juliana Huxtable, which I can’t wait to continue. She’s someone I’m very excited to be working with because, in my mind, she’s the most relevant pop star in the world.

I like listening driving around. Imagine that you are in a car that has a really good sound system, you’re with a few friends maybe and you play the music really loud, driving through the city and just listening. It’s awesome.

I am very excited about Sónar in general. I played there (in Barcelona) once in the past, and once at Sónar Reykjavik, and they’ve always been very supportive and appreciative. We are going to do an afterparty later and I’m really looking forward to having the chance to speak with my friends and connect with people I haven’t talked to in a while. Some of my family is here as well, so yeah, I can’t wait to get everyone together and just celebrate.

It’s basically a whole new world.