That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.

Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .

It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.