When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

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.

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.

I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did with my mental space. These were meditations that I did.

I noticed you could monitor the recording that you're making, but you could also monitor the playback head. There's a little distance between them and so you get an echo, right? If you change the amplitude of, say, the playback and play with that, you get different qualities and different sounds. So I was very interested in that phenomenon.