Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The Long Line


Composition is similar to mathematics. It's not just a matter of counting or fractions. In musical composition we create a set of initial conditions and follow a trail of logic based on these conditions to their inevitable and logical conclusion.

The heart of the composer and the scientist are one and the same.

Dedicated to discipline, sincerity and logic, the composer seeks a truth through experiment. The composer's creation is the shadow of forces that have no name yet are understood in the recesses of human experience. Beyond psychology and mathematics, musical expression, the most abstract and ancient of all the arts, approaches the mystical in both its mysterious aesthetic and powerful affect.