The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through 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.

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.