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

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

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.

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

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

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.