I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variati….

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the Briti….

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view..

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another….

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest the….

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries..

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the….

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain….

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better..

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depend….

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering sp….

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and ….

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respec….

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established..

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one mor….

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion..

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow..

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, speci….

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a s….

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?.