Acoustic Artistry Quotes

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music.

I write what I hear.