La Monte Young: "When I was a child I used to love to stand and listen to power plants. Before I was four years old my father had a job in Montpelier, Idaho, working for my mother's father, Grandpa Grandy, who owned a gas distribution centre and they would deliver gas all around that area in big trucks [...] But right next to this gas plant was a power station. It was just humming. I used to love to stand there and listen to it and I remember even playing up on top of the big gas storage tanks, sitting there in the hot sun and listening to this thing hum. I remember standing by other high tension stepdown transformers in Bern, Idaho, the town where I was born, and I also used to like to listen to the sound of crickers. Of course, the first early sound experience was the sound of the wind blowing up off BEar Lake around the log cabin I was born in. I think what really jappened was a coming together of all this information which was, I think, then set into place by my hearing of Eastern music and by the fact that the world had begun to shrink because of the electronic age."