5. You play various musical instruments. How did you come to pick them? What instrument did you start at? At what age? Would you consider yourself a multi-instrumentalist?

I don't consider myself a multi-instrumentalist. I started with guitar but I really love the bass guitar and I got on with that (I could also sing at the same time and there were people who were always looking for bass). The violin was my 1st serious study and I loved the violin that bands like Hawkwind and Ultravox used in their music as it was so 'classy' and yet tough and different and very emotive. I started to link violin to electronics as these violinists were also synthesizer players, so I started to love electronics. It just seemed you could mold sounds like an artist mixes paints.

6. As a composer you seem to like orchestral pieces. Who were your influences in this respect and how would you describe your work?

My great influence is Debussy, he just seems to break all the rules and makes such beautiful colours in this orchestrations. I discovered Debussy through Satie for they always seem to be 'associated'. Satie for his deep spiritual musical heart, Debussy for his embrace of all life.

I seek to go further into depths that Debussy and Satie touched upon with a little 'nod' in the direction of Phil Glass with my orchestral music. A kind of 'Medieval alchemist' approach searching for the 'philosophers gold'. I wish to go further into this hidden universe with my music. The orchestra is for me the universe in miniature.

7. When listening to your music one can clearly hear how it would work as film music.

Yes everyone tells me so, but I was brought up on a lot of B-movies, SF and American comics. What these films lacked in acting and script quality was made up by the music for me. The scores were fantastic. I should say that Bernard Herman is also a great influence. Later on the French movies genre also influenced me: 'film noir', silent films. I compose for films in my mind's eye I guess.

8. Electronics play a big part in your music and so does the Theremin. Do you integrate electronics with the orchestral and acoustic music or are they separate worlds to you?

Yes and no. I would dearly love to integrate electronics into orchestra. One hears this all the time in film music. However if you suggest this at serious concert level, it's just not taken seriously! Yet we hear it all the time, strange!

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