Harmonically and rhythmically his music thrives on complex, constantly changing relationships, but like many composers under 40 (he was born in 1971) he tempers the more prickly, jagged elements of the post-tonal style with humor and eclecticism.
Calder's mobiles, for example, depend for their aesthetic effect on constantly changing patterns of relationship.
"I have a constantly changing, perhaps ambivalent relationship with my own work," he insists.
The answers are rooted in the feisty debate on the constantly changing, often contentious relationship of art and design.
Calder's mobiles, for example, depend for their aesthetic effect on constantly changing patterns of relationship taking place through space and time.
My body is constantly changing because the relationships between my arms and my head and so forth, my muscles are moving.
In fact, for Mr. Miyajima, who calls them "gadgets," they are merely the raw material of an art that, as he has routinely described it, "continues forever, is constantly changing and forms a relationship with everything".
Today, what exists instead is a constantly changing, fluid set of relationships between London and Edinburgh, confused by feeble constitutional wheezes that arrive too late.
Growing up is hard, what with trying to navigate the shark infested waters of high school friendships, your first romantic relationships, constantly changing physical bodies and realizing that the independence you craved after graduation is more terrifying than empowering.
And how will human relationships change if we are constantly changing our looks?
