I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another way that someone put it is, you climb over….

I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me" - more like identification. Identity ….

You figure out how to create opportunities to make music, and then, if you take care of the music, audiences will come around. They also might leave.….

I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often that'….

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can ref….

To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act..

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make e….

I use are provisional terms, and they usually put any proper nouns in critical distance. I'm in a tradition of people who resist naming, fixity. That….

The thing about physicists is that they tend to think that everything is physics. I don't. That's not what music is to me. You can explain aspects of….

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of oursel….

Music is made of what we do when we move, and we can only move in certain ways, in certain ranges of tempo because of the inherent constraints that o….

If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came….

What I find the challenge is with working with, say, digital machines - performing electronic music - is that when we play instruments there's a phys….

Resonance is a physical process through which similarities are highlighted..

A successful relationship is not about two people staring into each other's eyes, it's about two people looking ahead together. I think in order to c….

There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I didn't notice the first time. Th….

It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion..

The phrase I use is 'easy camaraderie.' Non-western immigrants of color and their progeny like me - my parents came here fifty years ago and I was bo….

Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the ….

With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for audiences. But th….

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; i….