Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
From Brian Eno
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
I believe in singing.
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
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