The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning..

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my musi….

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated even….

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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..

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….