Occupation: Composer Birth: May 30, 1932 Death: November 25, 2016
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….
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on the table, and put it on. I didn't bother to….
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….
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 ….
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….
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….
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to k….
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….
That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning ….
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 had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to a….
I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part..
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….
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….
I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just kept doing it. At the Tape Music Center, I was working from midnig….
A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument..
I think the worst thing is stereotyping..
Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations and so forth. I dev….
I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals f….
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones..
It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points..