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

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

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

I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

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