I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

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

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

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

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

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

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.