You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

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.

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

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