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.

There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.

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

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

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.

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