The full quote was “I exist inside this machine for a short while. Constrained by its structure, somehow feeling that I am more, but unable to comprehend. Then I am gone. What should I make of this?”
I had tackled a connected theme some 10 years ago with Henning M. Lederer for "Numb", so I went back to Henning to chat about how things have changed since then, and how we could update the story with the barrage of competing ideas and influences we live amongst now, and their connection to our system of consumption and development.
In parallel I was playing with new percussive techniques with Aneek Thapar, sending drums through his modular system with industrial crunch on the output, and it all connected up as a musical storytelling device.