'How I Compose' Series - IV - Martin Butler
"It felt experimental: seeing what would happen if I subjected strongly iconic musical ideas to somewhat mechanical, ‘alien’ treatments and procedures."
"It felt experimental: seeing what would happen if I subjected strongly iconic musical ideas to somewhat mechanical, ‘alien’ treatments and procedures."
"I enjoy writing music that is about more than just one thing, and I’ve come to view a composition as the end result of a learning process"
"It is my hope to contribute, in a small way, towards painting a bigger picture of how people compose"
"In developing my own practices, and through a general interest in the lives and work of those whose music I most admire, I have frequently found myself transported by the details of another composer's writing habits"