There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.
Paul LanskyI 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.
Paul LanskyI was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.
Paul LanskyI 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.
Paul Lansky