Electronic music and minimalism — there’s a deep connection and striking similarity between the two. Their aesthetics and values often overlap: immersion in experience, minimal use of narrative moves in harmony and melody, gradual, microscopic, almost imperceptible development.

It’s all about sound — its quality, its placement in space, its lifespan, the subtle transformations it undergoes from birth to death, and its relationship with other sounds.

In 1995, Philip Glass orchestrated a piece by Aphex Twin —…

I have a guitar student who is seventy years old. One day he brought to our lesson the melody of the middle part of “Winter”. He found a simple outline of the tune and wanted to play it on guitar. He also brought warm memories from the times he was a little child in Argentina, went to a park concert with his father and heard the Four Seasons for the first time. He was simply enchanted by listening and watching the performance.  

His story brought me back to this wonderful work by Vivaldi and I started…