Around 1982 or 3, When I was starting high school, I was a frustrated piano student. I knew I would never play classical music or pop music and I couldn't hold a note as a singer. I was still searching for a way to realize that what I was searching for was a way to express myself. Was it the positive result of restrictive parents who sent me to bed by 9 PM that I would clandestinely stay up to listen to New Sounds near my pillow? When John played Laurie Anderson's Big Science, and I heard the lyric, "We have to put some stairs here, otherwise what are the characters going to fall off of?" I had the instant realization that I wanted be "there." Adventures of a lifetime ensue.

Matthew Kohn

Greenpoint