My main issue with minimalism (and there’s a lot of it in the computer music community) is precisely that it fails to take the listener on a journey. Not that composers need to use sonata form in any strict sense, but we need to have the sense that we’re being taken somewhere, that we’re being told a story, that new vistas will unfold and discoveries become available to us. Or that there is a tension at some point that is later resolved, which is another way of saying the same thing.

But then, I’m an old-fashioned kind of guy. I like Beethoven and Brahms.