My favorite memory of a live music event is when I was playing with my group Girlnoise back in Ann Arbor at a local shop, Argus Farm Stop, in the greenhouse late summer. We played our friend's piece, stones from lake superior (by Nadine Dyskant-Miller). The first movement opens with a peaceful line given by the cello, followed by violin. Gradually harmonicas join, building to a powerful peak felt in every part of the space but fades away to the second movement. My partner and I were playing the harmonica parts. The blend of the strings, harmonicas and the sounds of the late summer insects heard through the open doors and windows created a beautiful wash of sound and sense of being and awareness that I will never forget.

Robert Ashley and Blujean Tyranny playing live at a New Music Festival on Chicago's Navy Pier in June 1981(?)

Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, I was a counselor and it was my first time listening to Les Preludes. The dancers on the roof, in the audience, and in the orchestra were mesmerizing.

My very first time at the Marathon was in the 1990s at Alice Tully Hall and I remember vividly seeing Pamela Z for the first time and equally Twisted Tutu with Eve Beglarian and Cathy Supove - very cool performances and very cool women performers!

Oregon.

Freshman year of college my band had opened up for the group that had inspired me to become a composer, Artificial Brain. Their music has set me off on a journey to discover my own musical voice, so it was very meaningful to be able to play my earliest compositions for the people that got me started.

Rehearsing with the Oakland Youth Orchestra for a performance of The Pines of Rome, and being so absorbed by the music and color and vibrancy I was sitting in the midst of.

Seeing Colin Stetson live. That is truly muscular playing.

Steel Hammer at Mass MoCA New singers, and the band had to RAISE the tent....and the concentration of that performance, and the collaboration was unlike any life music event I'd ever experienced.

Steve Reich and Musicians at Severance Hall in Cleveland many years ago