Occupation: Composer Birth: February 17, 1949
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?.
...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time th….
You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the thing….
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition..
There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the ….
The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear o….
If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my finge….
I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words..
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with y….
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the….
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick t….
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound..
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets..
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert..
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it..
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm workin….
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar..