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I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

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.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.