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

Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations and so forth. I developed the EIS over the time period that I was just talking about [1991].

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape.

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.

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.

The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.

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.