You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there's a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.

It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks for everything.

I'm passionate about the fact that this world that we live on is a stunningly beautiful place we have despoiled at every level.

I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.