It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube. Paul Lansky More Quotes by Paul Lansky More Quotes From Paul Lansky 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 divisionpracticesometimes 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 pieceslisteningfirsts 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 todaywaythinking 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 piecesdifferentthinking 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 twelvepieceswriting 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 sawspiecesideas I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance. Paul Lansky tapecreatingperformances 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 narrativesidesthinking
