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Sitting in the waiting room of the Subaru dealer while I received an oil change, I was reading an old Smithsonian which had some letters of Vincent Van Gogh.  I was floored by the reading and shocked that I knew nothing about them at all, or knew they existed.  The oil [...]

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Decided to split out of the hole for the day and spend some time doing some work out in the light.  Light indexing of past posts, playing some chess when the gang comes by, and generally squatting on a table by the window, watching the world go by.  
In retrospect, I should have grabbed my [...]

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Summing up — in some ways it was an exceptional week, as I continued my journey of exploration down improvisational roads.  Less logical than cognitive, I was looking for some fluid entrance and form into this work, something less predictable and novel, something that would use the same materials that I had also used [...]

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 photo credit: andynew …save you.  But, it does make life interesting when it does.  
I’ve pretty much exhausted the performance exploration of materials into this work. I’d like to keep going, maybe to the end of the week before I commit.  The hardest part of letting go is that the rhythms are so free…unpredictable…and I know I have to write [...]

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Not much going on yesterday creatively – sleep being an important charge rejuvenator that I lacked, and boy, did I need it bad.  Its fair to say I am a  lazy composer of summer, who only has an interest in bothering turkeys – force feeding them and offering them drinks.
Ms. Turkey came by yesterday with chicks and [...]

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photo credit: BrainOnFire  Funny, this weekend I did some tremendous work – not to the usual path of righteousness, which is normally bent over graph paper or hell bent on making some vine of counterpoint symmetry work on 8 voices.  Instead, I approached in a way I haven’t done in a while – that [...]

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Exceptionally close weekend with turkey interactions, most likely caused by the fact that we have water and the turkey does not.  Thirst, in any society, breeds friendship (and perhaps bars).   In any case, ms. Turkey came by with her chicks on Saturday, and, as the  temperature broke 103 degrees, I was delighted to welcome her to [...]

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Carefully, I get up to pace,  and at the same time struggle with choices – simple choices such as how to orchestrate this first statement in the opening – an exposition of a main octal set which makes up the work.  And then there was the aforementioned main theme that follows – my indecision on whether to [...]

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