'Hothouse' (1992) was created on the NeXT workstation using a variety of instrumental and environmental sound libraries processed with the sound-synthesis language CMUSIC.
In composing 'Hothouse', I was interested in evoking the unfolding experience of walking through the exotic confines of a hothouse with its rich collection of flora conspicuously removed from the environs and orders of the wild to the unlikely habitats and neighbors of the steamy hothouse interior.
Now distanced from the humid experience of composing the work, with its crowded enclaves and spreading canopies, I am struck by its overriding quality of transition which leads the ear past different worlds of sound on little else than a thread of discovery. 'Hothouse' was supported by a composer fellowship from the McKnight Foundation.

Paul Koonce (UK), born 1956, studied composition with Herbert Brün and Salvatore Martirano at the University of Illinois, and with Roger Reynolds at the University of California, San Diego where he received a Ph.D. in Music. He has produced compositions in the electronic, computer and acoustic media. Awards and commissions from the Luigi Russolo International Competition for Composers of Electronic Music and the National Flute Association; Recipient of a McKnight Foundation fellowship.