Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.