[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

I thought that it would be interesting to have a mirror and grab a light and shine it around in different ways. It's an analog to the acoustic reflections that we're going to be trying to activate as well.

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

The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.

I think the worst thing is stereotyping.

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.

I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players.