>>What makes you hopeful about music’s future? >I still feel like a student who has more musical places to go. I’m in awe of the compositional possibilities st

>>What makes you hopeful about music’s future? >I still feel like a student who has more musical places to go. I’m in awe of the compositional possibilities still out there. When I work on new music, nine times out of ten, I feel like I’m tuned into something I haven’t explored before. And working on films with Atticus [Ross] is teaching me so much. I’m interested in learning more about traditional orchestration; there’s harmonic exploration I want to do. There are a million rhythmic things I want to explore. My optimism comes from the possibility of expanding my musical brain. It's pretty amazing how Trent turned his entire life around into something like this. It's my belief that one of the most important things you can do in life is to find good people to be inspired by in totally different worlds than your own. As a software engineer it's pretty easy to have Trent be one of those (many) people.