Winter Music: Composing the North Book

	List of Illustrations	ix
	Foreword: John Luther Adams: Music as a Geography of the Spiritual	xi
	Preface	xxi
	The Place Where You Go to Listen	5
	Resonance of Place: Confessions of an Out-of-Town Composer	7
	Sonata for Bassoon and Piano	31
	Songbirdsongs	34
	A Composition Lesson	35
	Forest Without Leaves	37
	Love the Questions	40
	Land of Constant Light: Arctic National Wildlife Range	41
	Winter Music: A Composer's Journal	57
	About John Cage	78
	Dream Paths Crossing	80
	Tools	83
	Acquired Tastes	86
	Off the Grid, Out of the Box	87
	Digital Revelation	93
	Farthest North Mountains: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge	94
	Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing	111
	New Songs	118
	Roots and Influences	119
	The Same Language	125
	Beyond Expression	127
	In the Ears of the Listener	129
	Strange and Sacred Noise	130
	The Light That Fills the World	137
	Practicing What She Preaches	139
	In the White Silence	140
	River Music	142
	Credo	144
	In the Sweet Bye and Bye	146
	"... the lines disappear completely ..."	148
	Remembering Lou	151
	Among Red Mountains	158
	The Heart of the Matter	160
	The Immeasurable Space of Tones	162
	Composing Home	167
	Full Circle	173
	The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies	174
	Global Warming and Art	177
	Discography	185
	Selected Bibliography	189
	Catalog of Works	193
	Index	199
	Notes on the Compact Disc	203