"I've been improvising a lot of compositions lately, then using those parts and organizing those elements in a way that's closer to traditional styles of writing," he says.
This year the Juilliard School's annual Focus festival, titled "Beyond the Rockies," has been exploring music of the West and celebrating, belatedly, the 85th birthday of the composer Lou Harrison, an American original, by playing lots of his compositions and works by composers who influenced him.
Pole, who has played music in bands and worked professionally in sound engineering for about 15 years, saw an opportunity to solve a basic wrong, and he recorded lots of tiny compositions with the help of collaborators Iryna Tuzenko and Sergey Sitnyk a mobile phone production team called ZEPHYR.
(He was an unknown musician before Mr. Coleman hired him for a stretch in the late '60s and early '70s, and he later spent 11 years in Old and New Dreams, a band of Coleman sidemen who played a lot of Coleman compositions).
It became one of Miller's main bands, enduring through changes of personnel, and featured a lot of his compositions in its performances.
I teach a lot of writing courses, mostly heavy composition courses, and I find I can't do it if I don't fall a little in love with my students.
Square Enix Music Online, in their review of the soundtrack album, said that it "pretty much lives up to the original's reputation" and is full of "lots of great original compositions that fit with the concept".
"I'm doing a lot of classical composition on the album, a lot of orchestral arranging.
I did a version, and then Pixelord did a lot of the composition... [His] music style was so textured and detailed that I wanted to develop the same universe with images.
Throughout their journey the robots will gather lots of data about the composition and quality of sea water.
