Dear John is dedicated to John Gilbert and John Cage who was a major personal influence not only in my writing and performing but in the way I listen to and observe sound in the world and how it is organized either by composers or more commonly simply by nature. The juxtapositions created in nature open our ears up to the possibilities of composing. 

"Because Cage invariably took the intellectual leaps his radical ideas implied, he subsequently concluded that not only were any and all sounds music, but that the time-space frame of four minutes and thirty-three seconds was needlessly arbitrary, for unintentional music is indeed with us - available to ears that wish to perceive it - in all spaces and at all times." {Richard Kostelanetz  - John Cage (ex)plain(ed)}