Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Prac...
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“Sounds beyond the limits of the ear may be gathered by other sensory systems of the body.”
Source: Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
“Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening”
Source: Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
“Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.”
“When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.”
“[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.”
“I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.”
“I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.”
“Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.”
“I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.”
“[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.”
“Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.”