That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

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 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.

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

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

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