In my other life I am a teacher and chalk is what we use. It seemed appropriate.

No - studio only.

If it lets me sit in my house in Australia and someone in California has downloaded my music then this must be a good thing - for me anyway.

If a major label wanted to sign me up then who am I to argue? Is this likely?

History? There isn't one. I've been listening to electronic music for years and once I had the computer, the Internet and the software then it seemed like a good move to try and make some music of my own.

John Cage - brought chance into music.

Brian Eno - make the background into the foreground

Stockhausen - the man makes poetry out of noise.

The Dadaists - they set out to prove that art was dead and sniggered while they were at it. Anarchists with style and attitude

Percy Grainger - invented "free music"

Blinman, a tiny mining town in the Flinder's Ranges in Australia. It really is the middle of nowhere. You get there and there's no-where further to go.

Just me, a PC and a pile of freeware and shareware.

Three Musical Rules to Remember:

* 20th Century music is not contemporary.

* Experimental music that doesn't experiment is not true to label

* Nor all experimental art needs to take itself seriously.

*People who give you their "Three Musical Rules to Remember" are pretentious prats and can be ignored (this is rule number four)