The Daily’s Alex Ewald spoke through email with Adam Young, the mind behind the chart-topping electronic musical project Owl City.

The band, currently on tour, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Diamond Ballroom, 8801 S. Eastern Ave., in OKC.

Known for its No. 1 single “Fireflies,” Owl City’s second major-label EP, “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” was released in June.

The Daily: When you’re on tour, how does your music — with overlapped vocals, synthesized pianos and extended instrumentals that all require more than just multitasking — differ from what we hear on the album, specifically when you have a primarily instrumental work?

Adam Young: The way the music is created, layer upon layer, means that we have to rely on a bit of backing tracks played live from a laptop. Some Avid Pro Tools sessions on my records clock in at over 90 tracks, and since we cannot fit 90 musicians in a tour bus, we have to make do with seven of us on stage and let the laptop handle what we can’t play ourselves. It’s a big job but a fun challenge.

The Daily: Here’s a tweet I once favorited by you last year, just because it’s awesome: “Crinkle cut french fries? PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR.” How much time do you spend on average thinking of what to tweet several times a day?

Young: Zero time. I just tweet. I have no friends.

The Daily: I’m sure the inspiration to start writing and producing your electro-synthpop music didn’t start with a late, sleepless night when you started composing and uploading your insomia-inspired creations to Myspace. If not, what was it?

Young: That’s actually exactly how it started. I was up late one night, bored out of my head, totally uninspired and annoyed at the world, and I started messing around with sequencing on an old copy of FL Studio my friend let me borrow. Even now, I tend to work the best late at night when I can’t fall asleep.