One of my early podcasts was with Matthew Davidson (also often
known as stretta). At
the time, Matthew was working with me at Cycling '74, and was
also doing some teaching at Berklee School of Music and working
on some monome/modular stuff.
Since then, Matthew has left Cycling and has moved into a
fulltime position at Berklee, so I decided to revisit our
discussion, talk a little more about what things are like teaching
at the school, and what it is like for students that are first
attempting to take on something as heady as that program. We also
get some insights into Matthew's ideas about ensemble work (with
modulars!), personal practice and the excitement of teaching as a