Most of the other names I would have gotten tired with after just a month, or they were grotesquely provocative in nature.

I don't play live, I sort-of... Can't. I do everything on the computer and with a bunch of equipment. I don't really have enough portable equipment to DJ either.

The internet can make it substantially easier to distribute one's music as well as widen one's audience to listeners elsewhere.

It would depend on the label and the contract. I could definately use the money, but I don't want to end up hating what I'm doing.

In 2001 I started having silly little random noise-trance jam-sessions with a friend of mine who was a pianist/keyboardist. We made a few fairly unstructured ambient pieces, and eventually a melodic one which I still consider to be the slowest moving song I have ever made.
In 2002, after taking a course in electronic music, I started making more melodic pieces, which for the most part sounded like video-game music because of the fairly simple sythesizers and sequencer software I was using at the time.
Later, in 2003 I got better software, and better inspiration and started making more sophisticated electronic music. I started working on a compilation of songs, with the first being "Dypole", a song in which the melody relies heavily upon the interfereing of two saw-wave synths in rhythm. Which as it turned out, worked extremely well. Since then I've been refining my music's style which is rooted in late 1970's space music, which was defined by the characteristicly intricate sounds of analog synthesizers. However, there are also strong industrial/grunge techno influences in there too.

Boards of Canada, Tycho, Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom, Partido Interior, VNV Nation

Boulder, Colorado

Roland/Boss BR532 mixing/recording unit
A laptop PC and desktop PC with sequencing software
A fairly generic (and very old) Casio keyboard with MIDI-interface