In 2009 the composer Eve Beglarian spent four months traveling down the Mississippi River " from the Headwaters in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. She made the trip mostly in a kayak, trading off for a bicycle on some stretches. But "it wasn't stressful exercise," she tells Kurt Andersen. "It was that kind of wonderful exercise where your mind can travel as you're travelling. And I think it put me in a diff…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:35PM on February 3, 2012