what is your opinion on composing music using ways? e.g. the passacaglia format where you have a 4-8ish measure bass sequence that repeats for the whole thing. a somewhat popular and recent example is c418's sweden from the minecraft soundtrack. to me, with this sort of thing, there's two potential appeals: shock value (omg! a passacaglia) and innovation (using an arbitraryish restriction can improve both your own thing and the restriction) but both of these can easily work against you.

there has been at least one time where i have lied.
i have tried using loop based writing, based on the fact that looped stuff has been used so heavily in the last ... 30 years. but ultimately i realized that given my particular strengths, it is best to not confine myself to loops, but rather to just write what i want to write when i want to write it