My work (in all genres) is principally informed and guided by the question of what we can learn from our tradition and which elements from the tradition can still be identified and experienced as alive and relevant. These questions are not trivial: as I understand it, they address the crux of composition. Even though it is not important to seek conclusions, it is necessary to insist on posing these questions again and again. In addition, I have become increasingly aware of the relationship between music and language (both spoken and written) in my work and research. I have been preoccupied with this theme since I began to compose. More recently my principal concerns are to take a word—which is already a unit that comprises of sound and meaning—and combine it with its associated speech sound, and take an understanding of speech sound at its word, and finally, amidst this interplay, to expose the music and allow it to be set free.

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音乐和语言

我的作品（在所有类型中）主要受以下问题的启发和指导：我们可以从我们的传统中学到什么，以及传统中的哪些元素仍然可以被识别和体验为活着的和相关的。这些问题并非微不足道：据我所知，它们解决了构图的关键。尽管寻求结论并不重要，但必须坚持一次又一次地提出这些问题。此外，在我的工作和研究中，我越来越意识到音乐与语言（口语和书面语）之间的关系。自从我开始作曲以来，我就一直专注于这个主题。最近，我的主要关注点是取一个词——它已经是一个由声音和意义组成的单位——并将它与相关的语音结合起来，并通过它的词来理解语音，