Same as eBay name. Greg is my real name. It was extended to Gregski by a former workmate who thought I was a bit of a commie git (I'm not particularly, he was just a Tory git), then extended again I think because eBay already had a few Gregskis.... as mundane as that!

I do play live, but certainly not often - tend to communicate musically via free demos with eBay sales and via www.archive.org - loads of special moments : mainly the look of shock on people's faces LOL

Well the internet enables virtually any form of communication we want, from "stick it on a website and wait for the audience" through to "one to one communication telling individuals about stuff" and everything inbetween. The biggest change we're seeing is to do with copyright - it'll be seen as the meaningless illusion it really is before too much longer. The net isn't directly responsible for that, but the net is responsible for greater diversity and availability, which will certainly contribute to the end of laws which restrict rather than promote the listening of music.

No definitely not - I've seen the contracts!!!! Ask Steve Albini or Courtney Love.

Born 1974, started playing at 10, writing at 13-14, writing stuff worth listening to (arguably) at 16. Early training was pop-music based primarily, though my taste was for those tunes which I suppose fell into the "classical" category. Later on tried some classical training and did the "university education" thing, which was great for tuition from famous composers and workshop performances of paper scores. Not so good for diversity of thought though - I think I conformed more in those years than at any other time. Now that I'm divorced from most musicians and work either alone or in long-distance collaboration, there's a lot more scope and incentive to think more radically.

Well most importantly I think Iannis Xenakis, who realised that the small details don't make the big picture. I owe him a great debt in terms of theoretical outlook. Same goes for John Cage. I sometimes sound like Michael Tippett or Hans Henze or Alfred Schnittke, and I'm also heavily influenced by Codeine, Throwing Muses, The Fall, Sonic Youth. Sound-wise, I suppose think late Stockhausen, Gerald Barry, Accroche-Note, God-is-my-Co-pilot.

I like benches near greens near rivers, plenty of ducks preferably.

Own software, mainly fairly primitive parameter-based chance operation stuff via MIDI initially, then mix and edit via Audacity and Krystal Audio, always as sound, never as MIDI - MIDI just generates pitch-events. I also use a digital camera to record natural audio, microphone for voice (mainly spoken) and also a treble recorder and whatever equipment happens to be lying about. I might be getting a piano (oooooh!!) so expect lots of improvisations in 2007.

Main "hub" website is http://homepages.tesco.net/gregskius/ but I mainly publish via http://www.archive.org/ "The Internet Archive", where I have 21 (at the moment) complete CDs for download. This site will also become an important entry-point to that collection.