Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.

I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to make music; it was for testing purposes. So we had to repurpose all the equipment to make music. That made me try a lot of different things.

I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.

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.

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.