I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

It can be found when listening to the fictional radio station "The Journey". Produced and directed by Robert Ashley. Techniques
Riley's music is usually based on improvising through a series of modal figures of different lengths such as in In C (1964) and the Keyboard Studies.

His work has been deeply influenced by both jazz and Indian classical music.