Alec Empire, Amon Tobin, Amorphous Androgynous, Anoesis, Aphex Twin, Bernard Herrmann, Biosphere, Black Dog, Boards of Canada, Brian Eno, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabbage Boy, Cluster, DAF, Falko Brocksieper, Fripp & Eno, The Human League, The Future Sound Of London, Gary Numan, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Ligeti, Louis and Bebe Barron, Polygon Windon, Raymond Scott, Silver Apples, Tangerine Dream, Wendy Carlos
Alan Tirac's first electronic instrument was the Buzzbox, a 3 oscillator plastic enclosure with knobs and switches on every side. "I knew the Buzzbox was a success but for some reason I dismantled it".
Successful experimentation should not lead to complacency; change should feed the desire to experiment. "When I was younger, I changed my interests regularly. I had a lot of Lego, sold it for a fish tank, and sold that for my first synth, a Korg MS10. It was the Sinclair C5 of keyboards".
However, Alan now lives in a flat with decor unchanged since the fifties and heated from a huge tank of kerosene. "We found newspapers from 1962 under the carpet". Do these surroundings affect his music? "I don't know, maybe. The flat certainly smells a bit".
