[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 heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

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

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

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

You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things happening as I play.

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.