Composing with Timbre

I see a very close correspondence between composing with timbre and abstract painting—it’s a natural connection to make, I think. The same sorts of relationships that define pictorial plasticity—the dynamic interrelationships of color and shape, or the interactions of negative and positive spaces in an abstract painting for example—have their analogues in a musical composition or performance. (Daniel Barbiero, Fifteen Questions Interview with Daniel Barbiero: Forced Originality, 2016)