To Those Of You Who

Back In The 40s And Early 50s, Building Simple Electronic Projects Was A Popular Hobby Of Many People. Back Then, You Could Buy, You Know, A Few Parts And - With Tubes And Build Something On Your Kitchen Table, And It Would Actually Work.

By The Time I Got To Building Synthesizers, I Had Perhaps 20 Years Experience Building Electronic Musical Instruments.

What Inspires Me Is Not So Much The Music As The Opportunity To Interact With Composers. I Think That Has Driven Everything I've Done.

Part Of What I Do Is A Craft, But Part Of What I Do Is A Science. And I Guess The Craft Comes In Knowing What Science To Use And What Science Not To Use.

My Training As An Engineer Has Enabled Me To Design The Stuff, But The Reason I Do It Is Not To Make Music But For The Opportunity To Work With Musicians.