Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

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.

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.