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.'

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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling...

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling...

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of...

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of...

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost...

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost...

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in...

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in...

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the...

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the...

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and...

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and...

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although...

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although...

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even...

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even...

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with...

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with...

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form...

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form...

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of...

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of...

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the...

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the...

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance...

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance...

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that...

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that...

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own...

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own...

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting...

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting...

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest...

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest...