If Nothing Is At Risk, Nothing Is

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.

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.

As A Necessary Prerequisite To The Creation Of New Forms Of Expression One Might, I Suppose, Argue That Current Sensibilities Respond Uniquely To The Notion Of Exhaustion As Exhaustion, Although That Does De Facto Seem Rather Limiting.

Actually, Most Things I Say In Public Lead More Or Less Directly To My Own Compositional Practice, So I Should Be Careful About Generalizing Lest They Come Back To Haunt Me.

What Makes A Specific Quality Or Quantity Of Innovation Retain Its Intense Newness Over The Years?