Being a lesbian makes a difference, transforms the thought/action process that is composition. To make such a claim is not an invitation to an old essentialism/constructionism debate, but to be in movement beyond static and deterministic categories. e attitude to the world made possible by both music and lesbian sexuality opens routes to an involved, attentive materiality/temporality. is calls forth discussion of three subjects that are normally taboo by themselves, let alone in combination: sexuality, the process of creativity, and ontology. By ontology I do not mean any closed system, but an active sense that the experience/process of Be-ing2 and knowing-i.e., living-is real: “It has all the meaning we can make of it.”3