There are these sounds that come from outside that work really well if you're listening. If you're not listening, if you're blocking them out, then you don't get it. You don't get the merger of what the players are doing with everything, listening to everything.

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

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.

There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation.

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 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.