Pieces Quotes by Paul Lansky

Paul Lansky

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the ’70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.

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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!

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I didn’t want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

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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.

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I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

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I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

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I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

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It’s always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.

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There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it’s very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that’s often relatively easy to do.

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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.

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Pieces Quotes by Paul Lansky

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!

I didn’t want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

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.

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

It’s always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.

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.

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