The problem of the torso— the root of everything cut off from everything— gives us an oblique way to think about music whose form is simultaneously so contained and yet chaotic.
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Read MoreI never put too much stock in drawing sharp lines between our influences and our own work, but let's follow blurrier ones from a short opera I wrote into the philosophy of faces, the poetics of plastic surgery, and the art of lucid dreaming.
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