I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
I've always had a fascination about mixing music.
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.