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Yikes, pate don't jinx it! Anyway in an unprecedented move, I will reach waaayyyyyy back in the thread to the original question and simply answer that I think for people who compose music that's more "out there" (as you put it), it probably is much more clear to them how it should sound than you might think. This is just speculation since I'm not one of those guys, but here is what I think. Even though it may sound like it would be really difficult to decipher from paper and even more difficult just to get it from brain to paper in the first place, that may not be the case for the composer since they are more familiar with the mode of thinking (in whatever harmonic, timbral, or rhythmic terms that may be) that led to them composing as they do. I know it is more difficult for me to look at other people's work on paper and realize it in my head than it is to put down my own thoughts accurately. The same should hold true no matter what style one composes in. I may be just running my mouth and not actually know what today's 'complicated' composers are thinking, so be prepared to disregard my thoughts when one of them strolls in and sets the record straight. Yet that is my answer, such as it is.