I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

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

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

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

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

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.

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