when I say I am a composer I mean I am an artist, not that I am a composer playing visual artist but precisely that the way I am a composer is the way a visual artist is an artist. in the same way performance, text, video, sculpture, animals, people on the street, nothing, etc. became painting or sculpture in the 1960s, I am an artist in the sense of art whose medium is music.

“composer-artist” really is a misrepresentation because pleonastic; I say it because I don’t know what else to say without explaining.

(note from journal entry, November 10, 2024)