“It's looking like consciousness is an emergent process, a sum that is greater than and not predictable from a large number of interacting, deterministic, even simple parts. My music is built in ways that suggest and refer to this emergence. Is it possible for a piece of music to itself become conscious in some odd way, on some punctuated time scale, dependent for embodiment on computers and sound systems as our minds are dependent on the wetware of our brains? We're already beginning to see music that can adapt and evolve in response to its environment. As the boundaries between music and software continue to blur, we can begin to imagine music that can attain sentience.”