Q: what's your compositional process?
A: it's a combination of 3 main processes. start, select, and work. the key to these 3 things is treating them all like separate job positions. the "start" department dreams up brand new ideas, and it really doesn't matter how small the fragment is. it can come from almost anywhere. the "select" department chooses which one to produce next. the "work" department already assumes that one certain item has been selected, and then sees it through to completion. the piece wouldn't exist without the "start" department, but the marjority of the composition takes place in the "work" department. the key to the "work" department is to consider the actual real-time effect that the piece would have on you, and then let that trigger what comes next, as if by lightning. and being struck by lightning is of course completely impossible, or extremely easy, depending on whether or not it happens