I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.

One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.