My mum likes to tell a story of me as a toddler in nappies loudly listening to records at 3am to try get me to sleep. The only thing that's really changed since then are the volume and the nappies. I guess they will return through necessity toward the other end of my life.

I was fascinated mostly by music, and had a lot of time to explore it growing up in a small farming and forestry town in Waikato, New Zealand. I started playing the cornet in 1980 and was playing in brass, concert bands and orchestras not long after that.

A couple of years later our family got a ZX Spectrum 16K computer which I was immediately engrossed in. It was quickly followed by a Commodore64, which began a new world of discovery. I got stuck in to recreating mediocre versions of my favourite songs.

Since then I've made it my mission to immerse myself in as much music, audio and film related stuff as possible. Computers have become a fairly vital tool in that process. The rate of change from recording onto half-inch 8 track tape to now has been incredible, and keeping up in these bleeding-edge industries has meant I'm constantly re-evaluating and learning.