"For a while now I've been dreaming of a past-shaped future in which traditional crafts and computer technology are fused. I think these visions may have started when I visited Japan for the first time in 1992, and felt I was simultaneously in the renaissance and the 21st century. Soon my ideal image of the future was the sixteenth century... with robots! Shakespeare's London... with Playstations! Floating world Japan... with video games! Since 1999, this vision has rung through my music, which has mixed medieval sounds with electronics..."