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

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones.

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

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.

First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay there all night and leave in the morning, observe the sun rise and have a lot of different kinds of sounds in my mind. But it was a quest, it was a search. It was research, it was learning.

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 am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.