Often in his music, simple harmonic objects are found in a fragmentary musical syntax in a textural environment characterized by noise and silence. Tuning the music in Just Intonation, a characteristic feature of all his music, focuses attention on music’s raw material and invites a micro-audial attention to its details. His use of Just Intonation is connected to an interest in the antique, which also is reflected in a number of compositions for pre-1850 European instruments, most often tuned to one of the series of Just Intonation keyboard designs called 'Kirnberger-Svensson' he has designed for performances of his music. It is inspired by an early temperament by Johann Philipp Kirnberger (d. 1783).