It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

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

When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.

I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the '70s that now are very well-known and used in many classrooms all over the world, but at the time were outrageous.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.