What Makes A Specific Quality Or Quantity

This Was Possible Only By Dint Of Extended Periods Of Frequently Quite Painful Reflection And Digestion.

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.

The Western Musical Canon Came About Not Merely By Accumulation, But By Opposition And Subversion, Both To The Ruling Powers On Whom Composers Depended For Their Livelihoods And To Other Musics.

Questioning The Nature And Implications Of Liminal Instances Necessarily Involves Failure, If Only In The Specifically Technical Sense Of Entering Spaces Where Prevailing Criteria Of Success Scarcely Apply.

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.'