He was very good. He could sit at a desk and write this music and, unlike a lot of them who faked it, he could really hear it in his head.
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In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
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I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
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