The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new pr….

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano..

Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions of people, but I can design the….

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music..

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them..

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back t….

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind..

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological jour….

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract su….

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other wheth….

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - l….

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particul….

it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch y….

Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our minds. It ….

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage..

I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, b….

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans..

Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away..

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important wa….

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that..

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative..