Occupation: Composer Birth: May 30, 1932 Death: November 25, 2016
That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise..
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions..
I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players..
The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and mak….
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come..
Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rath….
Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the twenty o….
I thought that it would be interesting to have a mirror and grab a light and shine it around in different ways. It's an analog to the acoustic reflec….
That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording bec….
My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the soun….
I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their perfor….
Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the '70s that now are very well-known and u….
[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught..
My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - ….
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active proce….
In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it started. And….
I'm currently very impressed with the level of understanding and of interest in listening that I experience wherever I go. That motivates me to dig d….
In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the bod….
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening.
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the so….
Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.