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" As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. "
Music
Art
Time
" Craft is part of the creative process. "
Part
Craft
Process
" I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. "
Writing
I Am
Am
" I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece. "
Thinking
Spend
Piece
" I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. "
Technology
Understanding
Friends
" I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. "
Know
Time
Very
" I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. "
Think
Writing
Saxophone
" It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. "
Try
Research
Mistakes
" It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. "
Talking
Music
Like
" I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. "
Younger Generation
Generation
Heard
" I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended. "
Ideas
Way
Out
" Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved. "
Development
Action
Cards
" Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. "
Years
History
Bridges
" One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces. "
Different
Doing
Spaces
" Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured. "
Over
Years
Which
" People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago. "
Seriously
People
Like
" Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. "
Make
You
Another
" Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. "
Skill
Street
True
" Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. "
American
Working
Time
" The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. "
New
Festivals
Me
" The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio. "
Working
Sound
Radio
" There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. "
Feelings
Music
Way
" What was once underground is now coming to the surface. "
Coming
Underground
Once
" When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD. "
Doing
New
Me
" Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. "
Music
Writing
You
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