[LAU] regarding "quick & efficient"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 08:47 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Reading an interview with Philippe Leroux in the Computer Music Journal, 
> when asked about spending 20 months on a 20-minute piece he replied :
> 
> "I try to spend as much time as I can with each piece before letting it 
> go into the world, so to speak. That allows me to re-read, to correct, 
> to refine the details, to add little things that enrich the musical 
> discourse in a manner that allows for as many levels of perception of 
> the work as possible during the process of composing. I like to have a 
> profound understanding of the piece; it is a daily two-way communication 
> that I sustain with it. That allows me to get to compositional levels 
> that are just not possible when  you compose something fast. Then again, 
> having said that, in the real world, some works are written a lot faster 
> than that."

:)

In the end it's emotional ambivalence that does the fine tuning ;).