Your performance at the Sydney Festival is titled Sex, Lynch and Video Games – what do those three things have in common?

Their sexiness. And all three things were also invented in the 1980s.

8-Bit Urbex pays homage to 80s video games – were you (and are you) a big gamer?

My dad brought home the Atari 2600 one day in the late 70s and I was hooked. We had two cartridges and played them over and over. Later, in the early 80s, he brought home a Vic-20 and I spent hours typing code to create new games. These sonorities and visuals became implanted in my brain and naturally coexist alongside the other sounds in my brain – acoustic instruments, orchestras, etc. The sound of Pong is as distinctive as the sound of a trumpet. I want these worlds – that mean so much to me and are a part of my inner sound palette – to coexist and ultimately, synthesize new worlds and sounds. I didn’t really keep following the progression of game culture to the same extent – apart from a brief but emphatic stint with The Legend of Zelda in 1999 when my roommates and I stopped going to...