Us guys like it fine! I've never found any useful short-cuts: just putting stuff in, changing it round, taking it out, etc. I'm a firm believer in the old German phrase (originally for painters, but it works for all arts) "Es malt mir (t paints me)." Setting up a kind of internal conversation between yourself and whatever you're working on. Modulate here? -- oh, OK.

Us guys like it fine! I've never found any useful short-cuts: just putting stuff in, changing it round, taking it out, etc. I'm a firm believer in the old German phrase (originally for painters, but it works for all arts) "Es malt mir (t paints me)." Setting up a kind of internal conversation between yourself and whatever you're working on. Modulate here? -- oh, OK.

This is superb. It reminds me of the game Terranigma, on SNES. But it's so much more than that. Kind of like Zappa, King Crimson and others of that ilk, but definitively Tate. The development is wonderful and the rhythmic changes, oh man.

As for workflow tips... I've never really thought about it. A lot of stuff I conceive of and write down in some form prior to realising it. This is especially true of notated music, but electronic too, though not all of it. I sketch the form over time, rough events, and so on. This means that when it comes to putting it together, I have a map (or a gene, if you like) to just realise it quickly.

This is superb. It reminds me of the game Terranigma, on SNES. But it's so much more than that. Kind of like Zappa, King Crimson and others of that ilk, but definitively Tate. The development is wonderful and the rhythmic changes, oh man. As for workflow tips... I've never really thought about it. A lot of stuff I conceive of and write down in some form prior to realising it. This is especially true of notated music, but electronic too, though not all of it. I sketch the form over time, rough events, and so on. This means that when it comes to putting it together, I have a map (or a gene, if you like) to just realise it quickly.

Thanks guys. The sounds like comments always crack me up a little because i've never listened to any prog rock really and that's what people usually name first but it's cool how that can work. I'd say my biggest actual influences recently are Miles Okazaki and Steve Lehamn, who both write highly notated music that always has some improvisational element, so I try to work that into the process somehow. You guys should check them out, they're amazing.

Thanks guys. The sounds like comments always crack me up a little because i've never listened to any prog rock really and that's what people usually name first but it's cool how that can work. I'd say my biggest actual influences recently are Miles Okazaki and Steve Lehamn, who both write highly notated music that always has some improvisational element, so I try to work that into the process somehow. You guys should check them out, they're amazing.

I really enjoyed this, especially the last section

I really enjoyed this, especially the last section

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