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

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

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

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.

I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

It takes time because the habitual response to that is very deep. It goes back to our earliest responses as babies. You have to feel safe, and if a sound is threatening, you're going to be upset. There are those early responses, depending on how and what kind of experiences you had.