Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.