Arranging is sort of the most exciting part of making music right now for me. I really enjoy the process of arranging because you're given all the ti…

- Jherek Bischoff

Of course, right away I got more interested in the far-out jazz than the traditional jazz, so I quickly was turned onto the John Zorn scene and all t…

- Jherek Bischoff

Usually when you're playing with other people in not such a reverberant room, you have to be quick on your feet and think about stuff really quickly.…

- Jherek Bischoff

It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to start writing is to just start writing.'…

- Jherek Bischoff

I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's a completely different note. That …

- Jherek Bischoff

Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that I was going to make a re…

- Jherek Bischoff

The amazing thing about the cistern is that, if you're improvising in a dead room, you play your note and then you're left with your thoughts and you…

- Jherek Bischoff

I guess travelling that kind of long distance and travelling at such a slow pace, it wasn't something that I was thinking about when I was inside of …

- Jherek Bischoff

I did one year of school and I was doing correspondence school, which was actually another happy accident. Correspondence school is basically home sc…

- Jherek Bischoff