in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the sa….

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment,….

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of….

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart..

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with ot….

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to ha….

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard an….

In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I thi….

I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. Th….

It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be d….

I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other ensembles. I just want people to….

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it ….

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City..