If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand..

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together..

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces..

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music..

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are si….

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..

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great….

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea..

Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, ….