Nice interview by Daniel Wakin in today’s Times with one of my favorite oddly low-profile composers: Paul Lansky. The money quote: “I basically don’t like electronic music. I like to compose it. I’m just not a big fan of it.” And yet, no one has done more than Lansky to demonstrate how seductive, engaging, and memorable electronic music can be. Maybe it takes someone who doesn’t really like it to bring out its best potential – just like I think I’m a good theory teacher because I don’t really take theory seriously. There are areas of human endeavor in which, if you fall for the company line, the results can be too deadly earnest.
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
