Suspending Disbelief

@Anmafean: ......haha, Vitamin D......!

@John McLaughlin: .... believe it or not, knowing what's going on can be a limitation in some regards (at least for me).... sometimes I have to just force myself to disconnect from patterns, etc..... it seems like the less you care about what you're doing from an ego standpoint, the easier it is to connect, or rather sidestep into new creative areas.. obviously, this is very difficult because most people try to use their art to define their very existence... music is such a psychological process sometimes....

@Experimental Ground: :)

@Dan Ling: well thanks Dan,... for years I kinda avoided living in the musical moment when composing.. but it's really immediate and often times a much better reflection of who we are, what we know, and what we're trying to do..... the kind of stuff that I want to hear doesn't really fit neatly into one particular genre... I'd love to get this kind of interplay going amongst other musicians, but it kind of destroys or detracts from the process unless you have the right people on board :)

@CochiseMusic: hey thanks

@Broken Mole: thanks a lot!

@Rudolf Schmitt: :) no connection... ..I just used the mandelbrot set because I find them to be extremely interesting....

@John McLaughlin: ...... :) I suppose most of the composition takes place in the noggin first... ...I used to spend hours and hours fretting over note choices and whatnot, but that's kind of counter-intuitive isn't it?

@Sun Tower: awww schucks........ :)

@Sun Tower: ...well a big thanks to you.... actually I just kind of try to "envision it" in my head and then, when the time is right, I sit down and play it.... ...used to write purely from a notational perspective, which takes a really long time (and doesn't instantly yield feel / velocity data like playing it does).... now, I prefer to perform / compose... for example, this entire piece is really just me playing two-handed guitar and then orchestrating it according to what I had in mind before I started recording..... what I mean is, no additional parts were added to the original polyphonic performance, aside from effects or whatnot....and of course the drums were "performed" via the nanopad after the initial construct was put together.... maybe I'll transpose things into different octaves, but that's about it..... this entire piece was written on Sat. in around an 30 mins, then I orchestrated it over the following few hours,..... bounced all the files into an audio mixing program.... then of course a mixdown was in order..... limiting, placement, effects, compression, phasing, etc... thanks for listening.... :)

@Black Toe Billy D.: thanks

@Fibonacch: .....I'm not opposed...

@Steam Abacus: hey, ..... thanks for the positive vibes, ..can't say too much about it, might jinx it....

@Brenda Elthon: haha thanks