There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

My roots are in my record player.

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.