Another thing with time was you could turn it around in a way by 
playing tapes back, backwards.  "Say" is "Yes" and "No" is "One" when 
played back, backwards. I can still count backwards from ten to one so 
that when the tape's played back from the end to the beginning it comes 
out sounding "One, two, three...".  Hank became expert in playing 
backwards music, especially sea shanties, that when played back 
backwards sounded like Norwegian songs of felicitude. His traditional 
instrument, the piano, sounded like a truncated accordion playing when 
it was played back backwards because of the reversal of the attack.  
Afterwards several attempts were made to make the accordion sound 
like a piano with little success, which was a pity because the accordion 
was much more portable.  We have sustained a strong interest in 
palindromes ("Sit on a potato pan, Otis") 17  and palindromic things ever 
since. Byron Black wrote recently from Jakarta to remind us it was the 
19th day of the 9th month of 1991.

Then there was the spatial element of being in multiple places 
simultaneously. This used to get quite complicated conceptually when 
you listened at home as Hank and RŽal Carrier (who at that time spoke 
no English) climbed down the fire escape at the end of an extremely 
long microphone cable and continued across the alleyway and onto the 
dancefloor of the Rainier Pub 18 where they interviewed customers until 
getting kicked out by a rude bouncer, while I was in the studio 
commenting on the venture with someone somewhere else on the 
telephone. 19