The Idea Of 'machine Assemblage' Is, Especially,

What Makes A Specific Quality Or Quantity Of Innovation Retain Its Intense Newness Over The Years?

When I Left Europe In 1987 I Did So With The Thought That My Relevance As A Composition Teacher Would Benefit From A Certain Cool Distance To Certain Tendencies I Had Been Observing For Several Years With Increasing Disquiet.

There Would Seem To Be A Limit, Even For An Art Preoccupied With Boundaries And Transgressions, Beyond Which A Work Reaches Its Breaking Point And Becomes An Actual Failure, A Mere Experimentation.

If Nothing Is At Risk, Nothing Is Established.

Certainly Being In California Has Encouraged A Sustained Commitment To Rethinking The Nature, Purposes, And Relevance Of The Contemporary Arts, Specifically Music, For A Society Which By And Large Seems To Manage Quite Well Without Them.