I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!
Paul LanskyI think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.
Paul LanskyI think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.
Paul LanskyI came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.
Paul Lansky