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….

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 think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we….

I'm very interested in vertical space.I want the players to listen to their sound in such a way that they hear the complete sound they make before th….

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….

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….

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….

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.

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

I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night..

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape..

I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take my hands off the keyb….

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….

It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening..

I think the worst thing is stereotyping..

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 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….

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

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..

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….

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught..