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American Women in Electronic Music
01 Oct 1997
By: Gavin Borchert
American Women Composers (Contemporary Music Review)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9057021455/qid=1070488935/sr=1-15/ref=sr_1_15/104-9810722-7276747?v=glance&s=books

My motivation in writing Kyma was originally one of necessity — I couldn't find any other system that did what I wanted, so I was compelled to make the system myself; but I discovered along the way that designing a composition language was itself a kind of composition. At times it becomes difficult to distinguish when I am working on a composition and when I am working on the idea of composition as embodied in Kyma...

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