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Be free, and live life fully.
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
I consider myself a musician.
I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.
I don't really call myself a composer.
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.
I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings... →
I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting... →
I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave... →
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