After months of work, an hour and a half of material is reduced to an eight-minute thing and then it's placed in a room on the tower. I know lots of composers don't work this way because they like to plan it a bit more. Babel is a unique world, created from within the imagination of the composer and therefore a sometimes bewildering place for listeners to visit. I have ongoing, intense rows with fellow musicians and critics, that they don't hear structure in my pieces. And they're very structured.
Structural problems apply equally to electronic music as to any other.
I'm very strong on structure, and composers of electronic music shouldn't be let off the hook of structure. They have to do it. A lot of pieces I hear at festivals are just not structured and they're terribly boring and they go on and on and on and on. For Babel , there's an imposed Babel structure in that a lot of the pieces are linked and that it's all in the one concept. But those pieces should also exist completely, structurally speaking, on their own.