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As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

I guess I got lucky with my sound.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.