The texture of a sound, defined by its specific quality, is the crucial secret ingredient that brings a musical composition together.

“no texture is like like I guess I would call it like kind of the secret ingredient even though it's not that and you know it's it's it's the spice that you add to make it all come together”

Advanced music composition can be aided by technology that allows composers to manipulate musical objects like scales and motives through predefined transformations.

“if we find a way to make that intuitive, you could have machines, you know, you could offload some of the musical calculations that that would take you a week to learn how to do at the piano or at the guitar. You could offload those to a machine and that that might actually be useful.”

He believes effective musical compositions should avoid unnecessary elements and maintain the integrity of the original core idea.

“each note needs to have commitment and it just it should only be that note and no other note and don't you know don't ruin it by by putting a lot of other crap around it”

Collaborating with other songwriters and producers is a valuable practice that fosters artistic growth and introduces new perspectives to the creative process.

“And the first song I wrote I, a co-author, sitting down with someone, which was with Servando, the first of what was Cervando and Florentino. Florentino. Uh-huh. Uh, we wrote incredibly well, and for me it was a before and after in my career because from then on I love composing with people.”

Zane believes that it is better practice for films to have original music scores rather than repurposing songs that were composed for other projects.

“I'm like why wouldn't you just score something new? It's just I don't know.”

The composer should begin their work on a film simultaneously with the other members of the production team rather than after the picture is locked.

“I think the compos has to be start when everybody else starts yeah so they get the script when all the actors get the script are getting cut scenes”

Music should be treated with the same respect as other technical elements like cinematography and production design.

“give the music respect as much respect as the other cinematography production design adding all the things that we as directors have in our toolbox to tell the story”

The industry is not truly a business of talent but a business of songwriting.

“And I think that what I've learned most about this business is that it's not even a talent business, it's a song business, right?”