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

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

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

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

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.

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've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.