I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
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I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.
I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.
I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.
I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.
Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the '80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the '70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I've been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career.
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.