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"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."
"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien."
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