I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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

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.

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

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

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

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.