just some idle thoughts - not really up on this stuff...

but perhaps you took an unnecessary turn away from the influence...

from wikipedia:

"Punctualism

Punctualism (commonly also called "pointillism" or "point music") is a style of
musical composition prevalent in Europe between 1949 and 1955 "whose structures
are predominantly effected from tone to tone, without superordinate formal
conceptions coming to bear" (Essl 1989, 93). In simpler terms: "music that
consists of separately formed particles—however complexly these may be
composed—[is called] punctual music, as opposed to linear, or group-formed, or
mass-formed music" (Stockhausen 1998, 452). This was accomplished by assigning
to each note in a composition values drawn from scales of pitch, duration,
dynamics, and attack characteristics, resulting in a "stronger individualizing
of separate tones" (Frisius 1994). Another important factor was maintaining
discrete values in all parameters of the music. Punctual dynamics, for example

mean that all dynamic degrees are fixed; one point will be linked directly
to another on the chosen scale, without any intervening transition or gesture.
Line-dynamics, on the other hand, involve the transitions from one given
amplitude to another: crescendo, decrescendo and their combinations. This second
category can be defined as a dynamic glissando, comparable to glissandi of pitch
and of tempi (accelerando, ritardando). (Boulez 1971, 60)

"The almost analytical focus on individual events, and then the transition
between them, brings a stillness to this music far removed from the gestural
quality of other pieces" (Grant 2001, 78). From a purely technical point of
view, the term "punctual" has the sense of "a point of intersection of
parameters" in serial music (Eggebrecht 1974)."

this seems like it might be a better fit for what i suspect rogers was saying...

but what do i know...

bear