I create art that may be characterized by some or more, but not necessarily limited to, the following characteristics:

1. questions the mutual exclusivity of elitist and populist values;
2. challenges inflexible barriers between "high" and "low" styles;
3. avoids totalizing forms;
4. considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts;
5. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism;
6. is not simply a repudiation of modernism or its continuation, but has aspects of both on a break and extension;
7. is, on some level, and in some way, ironic;
8. does not respect boundaries between sonorities and procedures of the past and present;
9. shows disdain for the unquestioned value of structural unity;
10. includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures
11. considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music;
12. embraces contradictions;
13. distrusts binary oppositions;
14. includes binary oppositions;
15. presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities;
16. locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers.