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 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 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!

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

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

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

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.