It can be done directly from the music using a mental method.
More recently, he has started playing drums again, but mostly makes music using the computer software program Reason.
"Maybe you even have suggestions for what music to use as a theme," he continued.
Monday's performance was a stirring success because he himself knows just how to shape this music using the forces at hand.
However, older music does not often use lots of percussion.
Well, classical music could use a few Pollyannas right now.
Some he set to music himself, using traditional melodies.
And classical music in Cuba could, from this point of view, use a little rescuing.
Although White had worked in what could be called an 'experimental' style since 1962, he composed music using indeterminate means after 1966.
The popular music used to be ranchera and some boleros.
