http://www.composerbastard.net :: caught between subcultures - wanted by none :: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:09:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en photo credit: shapeshift ComposerBastard has kept rather quiet and to himself these last couple of months, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been thinking about his work.  Sometimes, you hit a wall - not in the writing process, but in the arching philosophical question of what you want the piece ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=636 photo credit: Magnera ComposerBastard has been pretty creative this week chuggin' away on his new piano work - every day seemed to generate new ideas under his nose - ideas that were already there but went unnoticed because he was thinking about new material too much or because he talked ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=634 Short and sweet composerly evening.  Looked at secondary tetrachords - 4-note sets that are embedded in a series of common hexachords within the octad that I am working with.  Why?  Well, it can add as secondary harmony and contrast to what I have in the main tetrachord I am working ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=632 photo credit: hall.chris25 Tonights composerly session was spent reviewing what I had accomplished these last few days and looking again in my chest of notes for anything else.  I also upgraded some software and plugins,and generally tuned up things a bit for the eventual decision on when to compostrate this ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=630 photo credit: Shreyans Bhansali Short and sweet composer session tonight working on some variants of the main tetrachords on this octal set...rotating them this way and that way to see what kind of melodic materials and contrasting modal references I can find within the general confides of a scale like ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=627 photo credit: Roomic Cube Feeling a bit under the weather tonight.  Short compositional treat at the piano, but really nothing much in new material.  Looked at some old with fresh analytical eye.  Last evening in bed, sketched out a brief outline of the sections and the tonal areas for the ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=625 photo credit: KayVee.INC The news year holiday weekend closes in good faith, as I got a lot accomplished on the piano work - driving through the materials I have, and finding new ones.  It's surprises me how you can look at the same materials day in and day out, and ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=623 photo credit: mitch98000 Composing most of the day, which consists of jumping around different parts of the score, notating down little fragments, slicing things apart and together.  Get bored in one area and then you jump into another.  Every once in a while, you get a giant swirl that you ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=621 Good session today.  A bit too creative - pulling apart different tetrachords out of the octal set and recombining them into new structures.  Appealing figures of light, although it lead to new experimentations in transformations which lead to more work to do - without settlement and on and on.  So, ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=619 photo credit: matthew_moss An interest group of composerly sessions these last few days as I work through jump starting the middle movement.  Seems that composing off the seat of my pants produced some rather mundane materials - boxy phrases and harmonies which I found annoying and for a while useless. ... http://www.composerbastard.net/?p=617