If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

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 don't think of my music as being about something.

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

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

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.