When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.
Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.
Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.
Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
To me, speed is really about convenience.
For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.