Thinking about it (a little...), I realize that today's electronic musician has countless virtual instruments, sound banks and plug-ins to program and parameterize...
But at the same time, as far as I'm concerned, I don't see myself as a programmer or an engineer...
More like a craftsman, or even a do-it-yourselfer.
In this new digital and computerized environment, driven by algorithms, I want to reintroduce chance and accident, intuition rather than calculation, the imperfection of gesture rather than the perfect geometry imposed by DAW grids.
In the way I make electronic music, from the facades of my modular synthesizers of yesterday to the screens of my computers of today, it's basically chance and accident, human intuition rather than machine logic, the risks of improvisation rather than the security of programming that matter.
There's a playful dimension to the way I create my music: bending the rules, forcing chance, rolling the sound dice until I get the most improbable combinations.
For me, a creative electronic musician must be a hacker of the technologies that constrain him: a smuggler, a poacher, a pirate, a gambler...
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