THC: It seems that a key concept of First Nights is "creation in performance." Can you explain that idea?
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TK: We can look in a piano bench and pull out a bunch of pieces of paper that we call music, sheet music. But it's not music. It's a representation. To me, music happens when sound is heard by people for pleasure. Music happens in time, not on paper. Someone has to be creating, and someone has to be listening.
THC: The saxophonist Sonny Rollins said that performing in concert is like making love to an audience, while recording a CD is like cybersex. Do you agree?
TK: Nobody's reacting [with a CD]. You don't know how you're doing. I know just what he means.
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