The Incredible Thing About The Human Mind

I Really Didn't Have A Plan, I Just Went In And Started Playing. One Of My Specialties Was To Be Able To Play For A Really Long Time Without Stopping And I Would Play These Repeated Patterns For Hours And Hours And I Wouldn't Seem To Get Tired.

Out Of Doing All That Experimentation With Sound I Decided I Wanted To Do It With Live Musicians. To Take Repetition, Take Music Fragments And Make It Live. Musicians Would Be Able To Play It And Create This Kind Of Abstract Fabric Of Sound.

The Great Thing About String Quartets Is The Players Are Kind Of Like Family. They Work Really Well As A Unit, So You Can Write Things That Let Them Use Those Talents Of Association And Intuition-all The Things They’ve Developed Together As A Group.

Acceleration Is Finite, I Think, According To Some Laws Of Physics.

I Had Always Been More Interested In Playing And Improvising Than Sitting Down At A Desk And Writing Out A Piece. I'd Always Found It More Fun To Play, And The Other A Little Bit Tedious. I Always Had Trouble With The Decisions.