Uploaded February 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Composer, electric guitar improvisor, and Princeton University composition professor Steven Mackey tells Frank J. Oteri in this 2005 video presentation by Randy Nordschow that he is musically "mixed up at the DNA level." Call it the Mutt Aesthetic, which the dog loving Mackey knows a great deal about. To read their entire conversation, please visit NewMusicBox: nmbx.newmusicusa.org/steven-mackey-outsider-on-the-inside