There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, but I was also learning how to manipulate computers.

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.