The designer’s set up for each show is situated at front of house, alongside the sound, lighting and laser technicians. “I tend to prefer it there, I’ve got a better view of what’s happening on stage and the screens,” he explains. “When it comes to gigs, I see myself closer to what the lighting and laser people are doing really, I never understood why some “VJs” go on stage and have their back to the actual screens. We’re emphasising what the audio artist is doing, embellishing it, visualising it. I wouldn’t be any other place than front of house. It does make it more tricky with cables, but it just works.”

For Aphex Twin’s current stage show Weirdcore uses footage of the crowd, causing a distraction from the artist at work. “For Richard, I tend to customise the visuals for each country we play in,” says the designer. “We only tend to play in one place per country, he doesn’t really do big tours or anything like that,” he tells us. “The usual face mapping we do involves filming the crowd and then I’ll put Richard’s face on them, but I’ve started doing this other thing where I place images of local celebrities, I’ll take the footage of the crowd’s faces and paste it on to them.” This idea developed simply from a seaside holiday, “you know those cutouts where you put your face in it and someone takes a photograph – it was inspired by them”. The audience’s response is immediate: “They react to it quite strongly because there’s evidence of some research. I tend to go for the most trashy, ridiculous, naff celebrity which makes it really ironic because they’re all raving at this Aphex gig and suddenly they see the last person they would expect on the screen, or possibly their face too. It’s hard to describe but it’s a psychological overload.”