In all recent work there has been a constant development and re-working of certain pitch and motivic obsessions. I has striven towards an accommodation between rich harmony, locally tonal, and a suppleness of rhythm, whilst retaining clarity and immediacy. These form an intricately self-referential, "semi-iconized" world, analagous to the paintings of Edvard Munch, for example. Sound-surface and content have become increasingly "one", though it is an "eclectic unity", not frightened of reference, allusion and free-association. It is music of "moment", not "process". Above all "character", personality, genuine and transparent ideas, and "engagement" are central.

Janacek remains a special "hero" - a composer who found his own way into personal territory by side-stepping and re-seeing, rather than rejecting. I also hold affectionate regard for my first teacher Robin Holloway, and friends Ståle Kleiberg, Fabian Müller, Alissa Firsova and Marcus Paus (discoveries from a shared commission in Norway).

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