By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.