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I can't say that there's a co...

I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put together because today, anything is fair game. As far as I'm concerned, my own common practice is a piece that engages the attention of listeners from beginning to end, and doesn't rely on or expect the listener to zone out.

Paul Lansky 30 quotes

I noticed things in my comput...

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

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If the music has a logic of i...

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

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Even today, I notice that som...

Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.

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I was very fortunate to be at...

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.

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I didn't want my music to be ...

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

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I came up in the '60s; that w...

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

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I came to what I think of as ...

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.

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I don't think there's somethi...

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

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It's very interesting for me ...

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

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I was hired for a really exce...

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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I think you'll find a signifi...

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

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The experimentation that I do...

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

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I've been really fortunate to...

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

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When you have performers, the...

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

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I never thought that I would ...

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

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Very often, when you're liste...

Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.

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With a piece of classical mus...

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.

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I've had a lot of fun writing...

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

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I found myself recycling idea...

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

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