Whats the most mind-altering work of art?
Well, several years ago, I did a lot of work with the artist, Manuel Acompa, a young Philippino painter who now lives in the Bay area. He used these incredibly blasphemous images and juxtaposed them a lot of, you know, really beautiful religious images, and then these kind of hideous, blasphemous images and a lot of cartoons and just this idea of being able to put any element together and do it just so beautifully and so beautifully crafted was a very big influence on me, and mind altering in some ways as well. Do you do anything blasphemous in your work? Well, it’s harder to state what’s actually blasphemous with music because it’s much less narrative, you know. If I write a piece, it’s not going to be obvious and evoke a chicken with the head of Jesus on it, for instance. Maybe if I add some text, I could do that, but in some ways, yes, maybe some of it is blasphemous. Not against religion, but against more conventional forms. Do you consider yourself a maverick composer? I think it’
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