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