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.

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

Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

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.

It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.

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.