What is an amazing piece of music? In an amazing piece of music, I feel every chord. It is not just a collection of simultaneously played notes, but a feeling, an emotion or an image. A chord sequence that can continually pound me with this feeling, heightening the experience with each successive chord; that exists in a fantastic piece of music. Notes have an inevitability, a knowledge that at some point they’ll reach a peak and cascade down with a force of beauty so powerful that it genuinely overtakes me; staggers me; sometimes actually leaves me gasping for breath. A fantastic piece of music takes me somewhere else. The best music makes certain that I forget I exist in this world: not just a brief diversion, but a genuine belief that I am somewhere else. Somewhere better. Each sound and texture is as real and visual and vibrant as the grains of sand in a desert, or the concrete of a wall, or the successions of ripples that form waves that form the sea. No exaggeration, no metaphor: musical textures that are just as real as these.
This is the music I would like to make too.