One morning I woke up and HOp. Bip is the French word referring to the call of every electronic device. When they talk to us they bleep, blip, bip. I tend to work more with overseas artists. Well, I do not have the impression that I belong to the world around me, and I dislike most of it.
Experimentation comes from everywhere.
Electronic technologies have become more and more important in our everyday life so it tends to be normal that many people start to assemble sounds using machines. Then I was impressed by the likes of Silver Apples , Eno , SPK , Reich , Cabaret Voltaire , Einsturzende Neubauten , Pierre Henry , Varese , and tons of other ones throughout the years. Which certainly slowly educated my ears and unconsciously put me in the best of mood to enjoy Panasonic , Autechre and Oval . And since then so many other talented and younger sound assemblers. All I can say is that you get out as much as you put in.