I don't want to be constrained by a language which is unrelentingly complex or unrelentingly simple, but to build in a bias which allows travel from one thing to another and back again, while retaining an inner consistency. I have always been interested in the process of getting from one thing to another. My aim is to convey a sense of direction in music which is guided by a kind of logic - an evolving logic in which one cannot foresee the next step until it arrives, since there are always lots of possibilites open for the next step, yet which will have a sound of inevitability when it does arrive. Not many people are prepared to step off the edge of the known and familiar. Yet, as a composer, one has to venture off the edge.
Every human mind is biased towards travelling along known paths in known directions.
I would exploit the whole range, but use the extremes sparsely, for a maximum effect. They progress by means of repetition, addition and subtraction. Each successive phrase tends to expand the total number of notes by expanding the range and including a lower or higher notes than we have heard before. The notes within each group tend to progress in steps of tones and semitones. This means that they often co-incide with the notes we would expect in an ordinary major or minor scale, but the context is restless and fluid.