Very interesting. I've become more and more aware of the pure effects of time of relationships in general and focusing myself on organic movement.

I had to consider what it is I'm seeking in relation to making music for/with dance, and butoh is one of, if not *the*, primary area of dance I'm interested in. I've been working with my voice in developing a more rhythmic sensability. The music I write for my project, Pushing Air, seems to inevitably start with the groove and developed in a strongly rhythmic vein from there.

I see making music for butoh as challenging me in a couple of ways: challenging me create a more open, still space and challenging me to expand my aesthetic to include more strident, course, spacious, uneven expressions. Basically, as much as I develop my primary interests in music (pulse, phrasing, irrational rhythms), I also have a pull to more free, open and, frankly, scary forms.

My primary project has samples of my work at www.pushingair.com/recordings