I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio..

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise..

I don't think of my music as being about something..

Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not ton….

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their cat….

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense..

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance..

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world ….

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in ….

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think ….

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really d….

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts..

It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube..

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world..

Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I t….

With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first tim….

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course..

There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as ….

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Coplan….

I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put together because today, anything is fair….

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with….