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What kind of programs are you working on?

Things to just get more new sounds and sort of twist my brain as well. It's that complicated. 
I really love it. It's really technical. That's what I'm interested in basically- really 
technical music as well as having it be emotional too.

Is it a problem to balance out time doing the programming and doing the music as well?

With programming, it is quite difficult. In the conventional sense, I love the programs I 
make. It doesn't involved any sort of interaction- you just put it in, press the button and 
it goes. That doesn't involved much interaction and that's quite hard to get the balance 
right. If I'm using a sequencer, I don't find it difficult to use it to get what I want into 
the music. I don't find the equipment to get into my way then. If I did, I wouldn't use it.

Any interest in working with interactive systems and components?

I haven't done anything like that but I'm really interested in that sort of stuff. Anything 
odd or unusual like that. Electro-acoustics like that. A lot of it makes me laugh though 
because it's kind of like a science lesson with no music. A lot of people forget to make it 
into music. It's very technical and not very emotional. When it's got the two, then that's 
when I really like it.

Anyone in mind when you say that?

At the moment, I suppose it's just my friends who do it and a few old composers. I like the
old tape and avant-garde music. I really like Stockhausen's first record. It's awesome. Don't
really like much else after that. 'Songs of Youth' is my favorite one. Tod Docstader as well.
He's an American (composer) from the '60s, working with tape music. At the moment, I like 
Luke Vibert. He's doing this tour with me. I love his music. I like Squarepusher as well.

What kind of things do you like about their music?

I like it basically because it's music of today. It's really relevant to me. They're roughly
in the same generation as me so it means more to me. That's the first thing but then I also 
love it because it's fucking good music. It's doing something different that's never been 
done before.

How would you compare their work to yours?

I think we're all really different but we're linked together. There are SOME simliarities 
to the music but I think we're all on quite different pathes really. I mean, we're similar 
compared to some rock bands but looking at it closely, it's not that similar at all.