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Astreaux World was fortunate to be able to interview the great prolific Space/Ambient artist Jonn Serrie about himself, his beliefs and his music.  I hope this gives you a little more insight into this deeply thoughtful creator of wonderful music! 

AW: Can you describe the way you receive your inspirations for your musical creativity?

SERRIE: I'm one of those folks who hears and responds to music in a completely visual way. I guess there's some kind of built-in ability in my brain to do that. Space music is, at its foundation, a visual art form in my opinion. I have a collection of rare sc-fi illustrations and astronomy photographs that I use to trigger musical images in my imagination and then apply "visual to sonic" translation processes to the keyboards and studio equipment. Synthesizers seem to have the ability to create sonic images that speak directly and naturally to the visual universe. I sometimes use complex mathematics and quantum physics textbooks with strings of equations in the same way. I don't know why, but the music just seems to jump off the page.
 
Another inspiration source is a constant dose of sci-fi reading. Alastair Reynolds, Jack McDevitt, Arthur C. Clark, Larry Niven and others are regular companions to my work. Two titles from Thousand Star, "Enroute to Delta Pavonis" and "Nostalgia For Infinity" come from chapters and ideas from Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space series, which I highly recommend. Meditation is also a significant influence.