Occupation: Composer Birth: May 30, 1932 Death: November 25, 2016
I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we….
Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely availa….
I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did with my mental space. These were meditations th….
First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay there all night and leave ….
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize..
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones..
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..
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….
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….
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….
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music..
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….
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions..
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'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….
It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to….
The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to….
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 invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things ha….
People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to listen….
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening.