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Sympathetic Vibrations. I remember a cello lesson I had as a child in which  I was particularly fascinated with how a string on the cello would vibrate seemingly all by itself, when in tune with the same note played on another cello. Later I found out that there was a term for this acoustic phenomenon - sympathetic vibration. Space & Electronics. At the time I was also more interested in building electronic oscillators than practising my cello scales. I was particularly fascinated with the way in which different objects in the room could be made to vibrate as I tuned the oscillator to different frequencies. Records & Radio. My parents owned a Deutsche Gramophone recording of Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto which I loved to listen to while constructing my electronic circuits. Later I was given an old radio by an aunt and the whole world of popular music flowed in through its loudspeaker and shook up my room. I gave up the dream of building my own synthesizer, bought one and started making music with it...

Place. Since then I have travelled much and lived in many different countries and environment and language have come fill much of my attention. Much of my music has grown out of a process of transcription and transformation of things I find in the world around me.
Environment & Language. I have constructed pieces purely from recorded sound, combined those sounds with “classical” instruments or found ways of translating everyday environmental sounds into instrumental counterparts.The rhythm and melodies of language have also become an important point of departure for creating instrumental music. I am interested in how speech and story-telling both reflect and shape the way we percieve the world around us.
Body. But even though music might be closely related to the forms and structures of words and language, it all comes down to vibrations - the ways in which bodies vibrate and are affected by vibrations - the two celli and their sympathetically vibrating strings.