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

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

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.

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

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.

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.