What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I first saw this shocking, elegant, beautiful panting—Nude Descending A Staircase by Marcel Duchamp—in a magazine when I was about eight...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Without Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, I wouldn’t have had the idea to create my own symphonic work. I might not have known it was...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I bought a split 12" record of Stockhausen: "Zyklus"/"Refrain" and Kagel: "Transición II"[Tudor/ Caskel/ Kontarsky/ Kontarsky...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Hearing The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" during a school dance, at a local girls' school in '76. Somebody played it over the sound system, if...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I would have to say that A Love Supreme by John Coltrane was the work of art that changed my life. I heard it when I was 28 years old,...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The movie The Way We Were. Stunning. Heartbreaking. Never fails to punch me in the gut and leave me reeling. It perfectly captures...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Hearing Hella for the first time was an awesome WTF for me. I didn't know what was going on, but I wanted to figure it out....
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
For me, one record that stands out in my memory as having changed the way I listened to music was Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. When I...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Not one work of art, but several, and all by the same author, Dostoevsky. The Idiot and Poor Folk, Crime and Punishment, The Eternal...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Hardly anything highbrow, believe me. In the early 50s, I discovered
the narcotic of reading and my first sense of an author was R. Sidney...
