So: We're All Tired. Now What? Manuscripts

In My Own Recent String Trio I Attempt To Superimpose Two Quite Different Sets Of Formal Strategies, Both Of Which, Ultimately, Refer Back To Historical Precedent.

I Frequently Compose Out The Entire Metric Structure Of A Piece In Modified Cyclic Form, Where Each Cyclic Revolution Undergoes Some Form Of 'variation' Much As If Measure Lengths Were Concrete Musical 'material.'

The Idea Of 'machine Assemblage' Is, Especially, Very Alien To My Sensibility, Since It Suggests A Relative Indifference Of The Strata To One Another During The Process Of Construction.

I Would Not Say That I Was, These Days, A 'student' Of Philosophy, Although In My Youth I Was Quite Deeply Involved With Certain Aspects Of The British Pragmatists.

Certainly Being In California Has Encouraged A Sustained Commitment To Rethinking The Nature, Purposes, And Relevance Of The Contemporary Arts, Specifically Music, For A Society Which By And Large Seems To Manage Quite Well Without Them.