Occupation: Composer Birth: November 20, 1942
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine..
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitab….
My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of her melod….
I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. ….
I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema..
Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I reali….
When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment..
Curiosity is a great antidote to fear..
I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over ….
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges..
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one ….
(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an a….