If My Work Is Accepted, I Must

Composing For The Prepared Piano Is Not A Criticism Of The Instrument. I'm Only Being Practical.

I Imagine That As Contemporary Music Goes On Changing In The Way That I'm Changing It What Will Be Done Is To More And More Completely Liberate Sounds From Abstract Ideas About Them And More And More Exactly To Let Them Be Physically Uniquely Themselves. This Means For Me: Knowing More And More Not What I Think A Sound Is But What It Actually Is In All Of Its Acoustical Details And Then Letting This Sound Exist, Itself, Changing In A Changing Sonorous Environment.

It Is Not Irritating To Be Where One Is. It Is Only Irritating To Think One Would Like To Be Somewhere Else.

Now That Things Are So Simple, There's So Much To Do.

I Needed Another Basis For Musical Structure. This I Found In Sound's Duration Parameter, Sound's Only Parameter Which Is Present Even When No Sound Is Intended.