I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.
Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.
I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
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 was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.
One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.