I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Craft is part of the creative process.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.