Song Quotes by Paul Lansky

10 Song quotes by Paul Lansky

For a succinct, tech‑savvy perspective on Song, Paul Lansky’s ten short reflections deliver the essentials. They hint at his digital compositional approach without overwhelming detail.

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I don't think of my music as being about something.

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If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend…

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The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

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I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

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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…

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Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I…

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With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them…

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Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are…

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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…

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I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put…

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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 was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got…

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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…

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I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically…

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With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for…

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I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available…

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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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If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

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Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that…

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

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My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

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With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I…

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I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

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I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the…

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I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

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