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questions involved in the cognition and composition of music, and propounds a radically relativistic/individualistic/ontological reconstruction of the musical creative process. Later, in 1978, his text composition "Language, as a Music, Six marginal
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Language, as a music. Six marginal pretexts for composition. for speaker, prerecorded tape, and piano (1978). Lingua Press, 1980
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The River Between (2 keyboard sound session with Richard Teitelbaum) (1987)
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Kivapiece, for and about John Silber (textscore) (1991)
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