My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.