How important is the odd accident in the creative process? Well it’s all about experimentation for me. If you’ve got a flexible set of tools to work with, that paves the way for more experimentation, and you’re bound to have a few happy accidents along the way. I think those moments are important for discovering new sounds and coming up with fresh ideas. Once you discover something new, it becomes a technique in your arsenal for future work and helps you refine your craft. How do you feel about MP3 320’s being the industry audio standard in so many ways It’s the equivalent of having a wire brush at the end of a Lamborghini production line to go over the bodywork on their finished cars. There’s no way they would do that to their cars, so why do musicians allow it to happen to their music?
With all the care and love that goes in to music, not to mention all the expensive gear that’s used, it just doesn’t make sense to encode it down using data compression. The craziest thing I’ve seen recently was the entire Pink Floyd ‘remastered’ catalogue getting released on iTunes as 256kbps. Seriously, what’s the point? Here’s an idea… how about we get rid of the mp3 format completely, shift everything to wav/aiff and dump the $0.79 per track bullshit? That way the fidelity of the music is retained, it sounds how the artists want it to sound, and they at least get a little bit more money back for all their hard work? You’re soon going to be releasing your first sample CD, ‘Sounds From the Modular’– Can you tell us about it? And how do you see the role of sample CD’s in either compromising or encouraging originality? The concept behind ‘Sounds From The