"I see my music as coming from the traditions of “post-minimalism” and “new-complexity”. But I reached a point where I couldn’t see any reason why I should keep my modernist and other influences apart. I reject the term “crossover” as I have the same formalist attitude to musical material whatever its nature. I believe in the critical potential of music as a living cultural practice and reject the pessimistic postmodern cynicism of the 1980s. I argue for the cultural necessity of an art that exists between categories, resists commodification and asserts the possibility of difference." [S.H.]