[MB] I found a lot of power in reading some words from you on clotmag.org: "a vast majority of work that I've seen which takes the concept of "virtual" for granted becomes masturbatory and fails to acknowledge the ability of supposedly outdated methods of creating a multiplicity of realities". I wondered if you could expand on this, and talk about what is important to you when trying to create this multiplicity?

[B] I think art and life should be indistinguishable from each other, that the complexities of all reality be seen as simultaneously a wholly encompassing simulation and an unimaginably large absolution. I don't believe that mutual exclusivity exists between anything, nor that it ever has since whichever beginning someone wants to choose - the dawn of sentience, the invention of language, etc.

[MB] To me, the exhaustive sound palette you use - from your own vocals to MIDI strings to corporate age warnings on trailers to the bloops from an MSN notification to field recordings of birdsong et cetera et cetera - seems to evoke this idea. What do you hope these sounds to convey, if anything?

[B] Everything, or I guess as much as possible. The more immediate the response between work and not work is the more reflexive and considered life becomes.

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[MB] Is important for you to give off this feeling that - through digitality - all things can always be accessed from one point? I read about your attempt to apply 19th Century composer Liszt's 'tone-poem' approach to structure your work, so I wondered if there is some desire to dissolve time into a singularity, as well? Maybe even a flattening of the hierarchies constructed by the West towards the representation of non-Western music in relation to Orientalism?

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[B] Sure, all of those things.

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[MB] Haha! I wonder what about digitality do you see as being paramount - transcendental, even - to your existence, or to your art-making? Do you find it to be life-affirming on occasion?

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[B] Life support, at least. I owe my life to the internet and to digital technology. I've also come to understand it as something deeper than the things we usually think about in regards to digital, that the digital has always existed in concurrence with what people usually compare it to, like the analog. I have a lot to say about false alarms when it comes to what "-ity" is a distinguishable aspect of reality, but that doesn't take away from my conception of the Sublime or faith in God. There's something comforting in reading into the diffusion of definitions and categories, that all things always have been and forever will be.

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