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

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

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

I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.

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

I'm currently very impressed with the level of understanding and of interest in listening that I experience wherever I go. That motivates me to dig deeper into what I've been doing all of this time, to find new ways and also to get over the thought that it's not happening.

That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.