I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

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.

With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first time. When you first meet someone, you reference that person with others who are similar; but, as you get to know that person better, you begin to understand his unique qualities.

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 wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

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

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.