The Mosaic and the Emotion

For me, composition has always been, above all, a game of mosaics. I enjoy its artisanal, constructive, architectural aspect. But if I’m asked to explain the mechanism, to reveal the secret of my workshop, I cannot. Some musicologists have done so, offering me astonishing analyses of my scores, showing how the relationships between sections, the harmonies, the assembling of melodies fall within a specific system, with its own logic, a series of rules, a set of p...