I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I write music visually.
Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.