[When did you fall in love with electronic music for the first time? Describe!]
I’m a kid of the 70s. Like most of us, I was drawn to sci-fi movies and TV shows. Never mind the Hitchcock movies no kid nowadays is allowed to watch! And right there, what I’m describing is, the otherworldly sounds of Arp 2600 (Star Wars), Arp 2500 (close encounters with the third kind), and the incredible Trautonium (Hitchcock’s Birds)!
I was a Prog rock kid, and started playing keys in a student band where we composed our own Pink Floyd, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Yes, inspired originals. But then I discovered jazz and classical music and decided to study clarinet and composition, however, my master thesis ended up making a full circle, and I researched live electronics in electroacoustic contemporary performance context.
[What do you strive for, if anything, in your performances?]
Creating fast changes and contrast in speed, density, and dynamics.
[Imagine your music was made for animals, which animals would that be?]
Elephants, dolphins and penguins
[Who would be a dream to perform with? Why?]
In the last 30 years, I’ve been extremely fortunate to collaborate with amazing Symphony Orchestras, world, famous, opera, singers, jazz legends, and folk music masters from many different cultures. So, I’ll take the liberty to modify the question and tell you about a dream place where I’d love to perform, and that would be a place with wild nature. In the middle of the Ocean, on top of a really high mountain, or somewhere really cold under the northern lights come to mind…