To be artistically active among interested peers, some of whom would collaborate, agreeing to engage in preposterous and highly idiosyncratic processes of composition together — to be able to play so vigorously, deliberately, and concertedly, while we intuited and dreamed and reasoned argued and distorted among ourselves the terms and values for the choices and excitement we participated in — this experience realized a dream gestated in childhood, born in adolescence, and now found active in an everyday life no longer academic.
Steve Benson, in The Grand Piano Vol II, p. 30
Otohime 