In terms of the project name, The Devil in The Design, I would ask you to look beyond any theological concept around the word ‘Devil’! I can assure you that I in no way subscribe to any dualistic Judeo-Christian concepts. I use the word ‘Devil’ to describe an unstable, unpredictable but wholly integral set or sub-set of actions that change a particular pattern or array of phenomena. Inasmuch as this applies to musical works, it replaces the concept of ‘composition’ and to some extent, ‘arrangement’. The Devil in The Design sets out to create an atmosphere that while based within the complexities of debate between ‘electronic’ and ‘electro-acoustic’ music, disregards in an autonomous manner any constraints proponents of these forms would seek to impose.  Thus, this music is somewhat unclassifiable in any facile way because it seeks only its’ own levels, moves to its’ own vagaries and desires; it exists beyond categories however much others would like it to be tidily pigeon holed. Ambient? Not always, but sometimes inasmuch as ambient is described in a manner much like flitting peripheral vision. Chaotic? Only by way of timbral intersections and collisions. In any case, the music is Electronic, that much we can agree on, because it would not exist in this form were it not for electricity; that seems too obvious to state, but sometimes we lose sight of that important fact. 

I admire the facility to improvise perhaps more than any other. To me, it indicates a frame of mind that is willing to be boundless, unfettered by the predictable and expected. Composition and arrangement pre-form ideas that others will be expected to receive in one way only, like a painting or photograph, and to expect the same from the artist again, and again. There is no doubt that this plays into the human love of nostalgia and certainty, and that has its’ place to be sure. To create outside this set of expectations means to risk losing or holding the listener, but it also carries its’ own expectations too. The Devil in The Design wants you to never expect the same thing twice, or at least the same thing in the same form. You may be fooled into thinking you are listening to something you have not heard before, but in reality, it has been reprocessed using another set of affecters and so it just seems different. This is acceptable to the philosophy, much in the same way that one wave looks like another, same ocean, same crash of surf, but is not, and never is or will be.