"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. ote to the artist: when the medium fails conspicuously, and especially if it fails in new ways, the listener believes something is happening beyond its limits."

(Brian Eno)

Sometimes I despair about the terrible sound of Fin de Siècle albums – especially "Tout disparaîtra", which was really sabotaged with Denoiser, an effect that removes the hiss quite effectively but unfortunately also distorts the sound and gives the impression of listening to an old mp3 badly encoded or too low in terms of Kbps. I would like to hear it again one day as it sounded, played directly on my keyboard, especially "Myth" which is probably one of the best songs I ever composed. And the one that has precisely the worst sound of my whole career. But maybe that explains it. Maybe it's a mysterious necessity. Fin de Siècle is about nothing but the passing of time and the degradation of everything. So I can't complain that my own music sounds like something old and inaudible.