If Nothing Is At Risk, Nothing Is

When I Left Europe In 1987 I Did So With The Thought That My Relevance As A Composition Teacher Would Benefit From A Certain Cool Distance To Certain Tendencies I Had Been Observing For Several Years With Increasing Disquiet.

In My Model, Important Interference Phenomena Arise When Individual Strata Come Into Contact. These Chaotic Fluctuations Are, I Suppose, What My Music Is Really About.

I Dont See Lines Of Force As Being Destructive, Except To The Extent That They Are Exclusively Traceable Through Observance Of The Path Of Distorted Material Left In Their Wake.

I Don't Like Listening To My Music, Not Even New Pieces. Generally, They Sound Pretty Much Like I Expected Them To Sound, So It's What I Wanted, And That's It.

When I Speak Of "cycles," I Am Referring To Lengthy Intervals Of Relative Homogeneity, If Not In The Resolving Of Problems, Than At Least With Respect To The Consistency Of Their Capacity To Productively Irritate.