Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sou….

At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. Th….

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation..

I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really g….

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, li….

I wasn't so interested in merchandising through CD or whatever form. I wasn't really so aggressive about promoting my own work. I had my recordings f….

I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she….

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art.".

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my ow….

Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may not be ….

I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, espec….

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition..

I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work..