Be real. Either be totally yourself, or enter so fully into the performance that you become the performance.
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
Be real. Either be totally yourself, or enter so fully into the performance that you become the performance.
Ultimately, the composer merely devises a notated “recipe” for a musical work of art, while the performers are the “chefs” and “servers”.
Primarily that music should inspire. Whether this is through performance or composition does not matter; the principle is the same. Music should never be routine, it must always be special.
I see my music as largely built on the classical tradition, but – hopefully – exploring new possibilities within it.
I would certainly say that a rhythmic drive features heavily in most of my work. Being almost post-minimalistic with a constantly shifting harmonic centre, I think a lot about ‘implied melodies’ where I take the function of a melody, but rather than a ‘melody’ as we think of it in old fashioned terms – I enjoy creating these ‘implied melodies’ out of harmonic ideas.