March 23, 2014

Do we compose so we can create a microcosm we can control?

Composing: a method of control, or a method of ‘seeing/hearing,’ ‘reflecting?’

February 25, 2014

When we try too hard to innovate, our work becomes even more conservative.

Is the best composing the least composing possible (i.e. that which is absolutely necessary)?

February 17, 2014

Tom Johnson says “I want to find the music, not to compose it.” I want to compose what I find, and find more in what I’ve composed upon further time spent with it.

Bigger is almost never better. (After Dallas Opera work)

January 27, 2014

Everything is in progress.