"For a Reason: Roger Reynolds and the Creative Imperative"
Instead of asking merely to be listened to, the music of Roger Reynolds invites complete submergence. The impressions evoked by his sonic art are as captivating as the view he commands of the Pacific Ocean’s open horizon beyond his studio window. But submergence is not submission. It is not surrender to a prefabricated outlook but the welcoming of surprise. Reynolds is a composer always in search of what does not yet exist, not an asserter of what is already known.
