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.

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

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.

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.