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.

My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation.

I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.

I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.

I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

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

In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced.