I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative. Paul Lansky More Quotes by Paul Lansky More Quotes From Paul Lansky It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking. Paul Lansky wife interesting thinking Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context. Paul Lansky division practice sometimes Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms. Paul Lansky pieces listening firsts Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured. Paul Lansky today way thinking I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course. Paul Lansky pieces different thinking I don't think of my music as being about something. Paul Lansky thinking I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time! Paul Lansky twelve pieces writing I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea. Paul Lansky saws pieces ideas I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance. Paul Lansky tape creating performances
