I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.
I'm interested in all kinds of music, and sooner or later most of those musics find their way into my own compositions.
I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
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