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I've always found (contemporary/unpremiered) music to have parallels to performance art, with a few major differences— you mentioned one once in discussing a hierarchy of art, saying that music passes directly through the body of the observer, making it the most direct. My concern as an artist is a second: as a creator in performance art, you largely creates experiences that you will perform yourself. As a creator in contemporary music, especially music preoccupied equally with the challenges of the performance than the overall sound, one loses that direct control but exerts control on another performer.

Can you speak to this difference in creating experiences for yourself vs. others? How did this dynamic affect you when reliving the works during Seven Easy Pieces?

To clarify: what I meant was creating a work you perform, vs. a work someone else must perform. How is it different performing a work you create, vs. performing a piece someone else created (are you a medium to recreate the event, or is it something else?)