My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the twenty or thirty years that we've been operating is now transferred to RPI.

Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening

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.

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

There are these sounds that come from outside that work really well if you're listening. If you're not listening, if you're blocking them out, then you don't get it. You don't get the merger of what the players are doing with everything, listening to everything.

I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.