

Switch on a dime
16 years ago, Anthony Pateras and I hired two white baby grand pianos and moved them into my plush blue-carpeted studio in Hoddle Street, Melbourne. Every morning after coffee and cigarettes, we would stuff the pianos with screws, bolts, washers, 5 cent pieces, cardboard, and other such implements, and then proceed to hash out complex textural and contrapuntal structures. Half way through our sessions, we were joined by Robin Fox, who brought over a wall full of analogue synt