Occupation: Composer Birth: May 30, 1932 Death: November 25, 2016
A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument..
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening..
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….
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….
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….
The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now..
[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something ….
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….
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….
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion]..
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….
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….
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as vi….
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 ….
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….
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….
The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment..
That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise..
[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it..
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 - ….
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….