My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.
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The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
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