I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

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.

I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to make music; it was for testing purposes. So we had to repurpose all the equipment to make music. That made me try a lot of different things.

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

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

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

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