I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual….

I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to make music; it was for testing p….

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, wha….

I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditation….

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so s….

It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points..

Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated; it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live sound and delaying it an….

There are these sounds that come from outside that work really well if you're listening. If you're not listening, if you're blocking them out, then y….

When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the hea….

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention..

We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I would say there a few thousand….

After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot of mystery abou….

I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except ve….

The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of ho….

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father….

It takes time because the habitual response to that is very deep. It goes back to our earliest responses as babies. You have to feel safe, and if a s….

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not….

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for ….

I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that..

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..

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….