When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.

When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.

The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.