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.

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.

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.

I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.

I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

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

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