The White Paintings Came First; My Silent

My Favorite Piece [piece Of Music] Is The One We Hear All The Time If We Are Quiet.

What Is The Purpose Of Writing Music? One Is, Of Course, Not Dealing With Purposes But Dealing With Sounds. Or The Answer Must Take The Form Of A Paradox: A Purposeful Purposeless Or A Purposeless Play. This Play, However, Is An Affirmation Of Life--not An Attempt To Bring Order Out Of Chaos Nor To Suggest Improvements In Creation, But Simply A Way Of Waking Up To The Very Life We’re Living, Which Is So Excellent Once One Gets One’s Mind And One’s Desires Out Of Its Way And Lets It Act Of Its Own Accord.

College: Two Hundred People Reading The Same Book. An Obvious Mistake. Two Hundred People Can Read Two Hundred Books.

The Attitude I Take Is That Everyday Life Is More Interesting Than Forms Of Celebration, When We Become Aware Of It. That When Is When Our Intentions Go Down To Zero. Then Suddenly You Notice That The World Is Magical.

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.