Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say, for example, if I was facing someone wearing I don't know, a Joy Division t-shirt with the mountains on it or something like that.

The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.

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.