I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
I use music as a medium to talk to people.
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.
As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you cal...
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any kind of isolated moves, like ballet moves. Anything that works the glutes and legs - sign me up! And I like to blast the music. I have to g...
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.
