Being A Musician Is Very Easy. My

Our Times Seem To Be So Much About Redefining Where We Are Physical And Where We're Not. For Me, It Is Really Exciting To Take The Cutting Edge Technology And Take It As Far As It Can Get Virtually, Use It To Describe/control The Musicology Or The Behavior Of Raw Natural Elements, And Then Plug It With A Sound Source Which Is The Most Acoustic One There Is - Like Gamelan And Pipe Organ. So You Get The Extremes: Very Virtual And Very Physical. In That Way You Shift The Physicality.

When I Was 20, Political Music Was The Uncoolest Thing On Earth. But When Bush Got Elected, That Was The First Time I Started Actually Reading The News.

In School, I Guess I Was A Difficult, Know-it-all Type Of Student... I Was Always Complaining That Music Education Was Too Academic.

Part Of Me Is Probably More Conservative Than People Realise. I Like My Old String Quartets, I Don't Like Music That's Trippy For Trippy's Sake.

I've Written Arrangements For Choirs And Strings In The Past, But I Usually Write Music With My Voice Or A Keyboard And Then I'll Get Someone Who Is Good At Writing Scores To Write It Out. Or, If I Have The Luxury Of Time, I Will Go In A Room And Hear The People Perform And Then Change It Through What I Hear, Not On Paper. I Can Read Music Ok, But I Probably Rebelled A Little - Music Changes Into Something Else When You Read It.