The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?