the Sho

I just took the train out to Montauk on my own and sat there in a hotel and wrote the sho pieces in the space of a week.

She then recruited the instrument’s virtuoso, Mayumi Miyata, to perform them.

I listened to everything she had done, and it encouraged me to do the opposite. I was wary of the Japanese stereotypes, and I didn’t want it to sound like some New Age meditation CD.

New York Magazine , November 28, 2005 issue