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

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

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

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

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

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 that's it.