![]() All of a sudden, I looked and I could see dust in the tape path. I went to make a cup of coffee in the kitchen, came back and was listening, and I started noticing something was changing. This is going to be my new piece - fantastic.' So I went and turned on my Voyager synthesizer, tweaked it and came up with this random arpeggiating French horn sound countermelody, turned on the recorder, set the levels and started recording. I just thought, 'Oh, this is what I need right now. "So I put this loop on, put it on the Revox and turned it on and it was just so grave and so beautiful and stately. I knew what could happen to tape and I didn't want my old work to be destroyed, so I was trying to digitize it. I had recently discovered this big case of all this old work back in the storage room in our loft in New York, which we called the Land of Time Forgot because everything just got put back there and piled up. Get to work.' So I got in there and I just picked up the first next loop that was on the line to be transferred to digital. Show up for work, get back in the studio. And I just had to laugh, like, 'You've got this time, use it. I picked up this little book off my shelf, The Way of Zen, and was sitting there in the sun reading it. You know, when I first went into the studio that day - it was a beautiful summer day in New York - I was panicking because I didn't have any work and was about to be evicted.
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