If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.