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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.

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 Incredible Thing About The Human Mind Is That Is Didn't Come With An Instruction Book.

Music Can Also Be A Sensual Pleasure, Like Eating Food Or Sex. But Its Highest Vibration For Me Is That Point Of Taking Us To A Real Understanding Of Something In Our Nature Which We Can Very Rarely Get At. It Is A Spiritual State Of Oneness.

I Was Using Tape Loops For Dancers And Dance Production. I Had Very Funky Primitive Equipment, In Fact Technology Wasn't Very Good No Matter How Much Money You Had.