My first instrument was a Rosedale Chord organ. I must’ve been about five and I’d sit and play this thing for hours. It started a lifelong love of electronic keyboards and music. I grew up during the heyday of synthesisers and during that time I played a succession of iconic instruments, writing scores for theatre productions and short films and playing keyboards in bands - it really was a great time for me.

These days I spend a lot of my time in my studio at Snape Maltings, an art and concert hall complex in Suffolk on the south coast of England. It’s a very beautiful but sometimes bleak landscape - in fact Benjamin Britten used to live around here and standing on the local beaches you can really see where works like Peter Grimes came from. But I love it down here: I love the forests, the sea, and one of my favourite things to do is take a canoe out onto the estuary where you can paddle for miles without seeing anyone. It’s so special to find such peace and solitude in the overcrowded south of England.

These pieces are very personal to me and I’ve never really played them to anyone before, but last year a friend asked whether I would contribute a track to an album he was putting together on the subject of sleep. I offered Lullaby for Juliet, a piece I wrote for my oldest daughter when she was a baby. It was astonishing - BBC Radio 3 played it and the track was streamed over 100,000 times in the first couple of months, in countries literally all around the world. On the back of that I was asked to record a full album, and In Some Other Room is the result.

The pieces on this album date from the 1990s through to the present day - it’s been a wonderful journey rediscovering them and the memories they hold, and bringing them back out into the light. I’m really grateful to those people who inspired them in the first place and everyone who helped this project along the way.