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.

The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.

I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.

The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of "The Unheimlich".

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.