All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.