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

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.

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.