You wear many hats—composer, curator, artistic director. How do you organize your work/creative life?
I’m very much a project-oriented person, as I think many artists are, so I see my work at National Sawdust as just another part of my creative output. I try and balance the different sides of myself with the projects that I choose. For me, Sawdust represents the activist side, the side that contributes to the community at large. Setting it up was definitely a lot harder than I ever imagined. I don’t think I would have probably done it at this stage of my career if I had known how long it would take or how complicated it would actually be.