James Tenney

“What I'm interested in is not the creation of a new style, but the exploration of a new perceptual space.”

“The harmonic series is a law of nature, and as such it has a certain authority for music.”

“The primary function of form is to make the listener's experience of the piece coherent.”

“For me, the computer was primarily a tool for realizing musical ideas that I couldn't realize in any other way.”

“Good perception is a prerequisite for good thinking.”

“I think of music as a process of discovery, not of invention.”

“A sound is not just a pitch and a loudness, but it has a whole complex of other characteristics that are just as important.”