I 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 LanskyI wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.
Paul LanskyI think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.
Paul LanskyMy perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.
Paul LanskyThere are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.
Paul Lansky