How has Applebaum taken on roles beyond the more traditional, narrow definition of composer? Identify and explain these roles that Applebaum has taken on that go beyond the traditional idea of composer.

Applebaum takes the role of an innovative composer since his works are a mixture of cut pieces and layers of sheet music.

Explanation: The composer Mark Applebaum is not a traditional composer. His main role is to create a compositional technique that consists of cutting certain parts of music already written, and then putting them on top of another series of notes, so that he has a result of layered sounds, to finally write the new score and have an excentric and mysterious outcoming tone.