The White Paintings Came First; My Silent

Each Something Is A Celebration Of The Nothing That Supports It.

Let No One Imagine That In Owning A Recording He Has The Music. The Very Practice Of Music Is A Celebration That We Own Nothing.

The Function Of Art Is To Imitate Nature In Her Manner Of Operation. Our Understanding Of Her Manner Of Operation” Changes According To Advances In The Sciences.

I Imagine That As Contemporary Music Goes On Changing In The Way That I'm Changing It What Will Be Done Is To More And More Completely Liberate Sounds From Abstract Ideas About Them And More And More Exactly To Let Them Be Physically Uniquely Themselves. This Means For Me: Knowing More And More Not What I Think A Sound Is But What It Actually Is In All Of Its Acoustical Details And Then Letting This Sound Exist, Itself, Changing In A Changing Sonorous Environment.

The Highest Purpose Is To Have No Purpose At All. This Puts One In Accord With Nature, In Her Manner Of Operation.