In my early teens I was an avid fan of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and so on. I even started building my own modular synthesizer but soon realized that I needed far greater skills in the electronics department and lab equipment that I had available at the time. So that project was canned

Nevertheless, the interest in synthesizers and electronic music persisted, and lo and behold, there are affordable synthesizers on the market today and there is is even such a thing as a virtual synthesizer so I took up the hobby again.

Not to program them, that’s too much like work, but for tinkering and making music with.