In creating his own style, Glass illuminated still further the relation between simplicity and complexity. His music has been called 'mesmeric', 'uplifting', 'mystic', and full of 'religious serenity'. But if the goal is a music with structure and integrity and conceptual fascination that excites and moves an audience, then music that fails to do that has fallen short. Glass's music has complexities its critics rarely consider. Rhythmic units fly by with such speed that it takes a player considerable concentration not to get lost.
Lines sometimes overlap in ways that are difficult to perform or perceive.
Visually they are also largely static. A singer may cross the stage, climb a pole, and then descend again, all in a period of ten minutes. But nothing else happens. I also find that, in re-writing, I can make my biggest improvements. These all employ the familiar scoring of the electronic guided style with the customary progressive arpeggio.