Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.

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

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

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, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.