on the other hand...

Today I was writing ambient music for Mortal Kombat 7 -- y'know, just stuff that plays while you're wandering around one of the Realms, not killing anybody or anything. I was really frustrated with what I was coming up with, so I played it for another composer (Vince Pontarelli -- you may've heard that name before). He liked what I was doing but agreed that I was on the wrong track. He played some of his ambient music from a previous game. Waaaaaaaaaay more artsy. And quite a bit more fartsy too. In fact, it bordered on contemporary bleep-bloop music from Hell -- it was good, but it was SERIOUSLY abstract.

OK, so I guess sometimes you've gotta be subtle too...