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.

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I would say there a few thousand people out there that have some relationship to what we do.

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

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape.

I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.