One often makes music to supplement one's world.
Brian Eno
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and... →
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody... →
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it... →
In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates... →
I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I... →
I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came.... →
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that... →
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the... →
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which... →