In this interview, he discusses his unique composition concepts and giving concerts of pure computer-performed music. But I found that, although I have great respect for improvisation, I got better results if I actually wrote down the music and composed. There is certainly an improvisational quality to the music, which reflects my saxophone playing, and for the last three years, I've been studying Hindustani and South Indian music, and all that's improvisation of course. So there is definitely that influence as well. I almost think of my music as being composed improvisations, but they are compositions.
Every single note is written out.
I came to realize that a lot of the music I had been attracted to has its roots in Indian classical music. And I discovered that the source of a lot of the music that I grew up listening to is more advanced than what I heard initially. It is incredibly wide and deep in its content. It's very natural for me to be attracted to Indian music because I grew up listening to a derivative of it. Starting very slowly with no tempo and going into a tempo and increasing gradually, though I don't really use the rhythmic cycles they use in Indian music.