“Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results.”
Brian Eno
“A composition that we do not understand or like – vanishes almost immediately from memory.”
Curtis Roads
“Though I may have the pleasure of discovering musical processes and composing musical material to run through them, once the process is set up and loaded it runs by itself … .”
Steve Reich
“The problem of modern music is one of recognition … because its inner technical problem is one of form. … form is a prerequisite of recognition. Formless context is … unrecognizable.”
Ernst Krennek
“Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repreated patterns, musical patterns.”
Terry Riley
“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story.It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what is missing is the eyebrows”.
Frank Zappa