My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.
I'm into scales right now.
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.
Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.
