It may look like a downtime week for composing, and right to think I might be doing absolutely nothing otherwise.  But, the life tasks and other issues, including the day gig, piled up resulting in my being very busy.  Add in the heat factor, and turning on the main computer to write anything, let alone [...]

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Last evening, I had precisely 10 minutes last evening to go over my “Sudoko” musical design with reference to particular harmonies. I wanted to integrate from it into my more tonal adjustment,  My reaction…hmmm…well…knarly.  Not sure it will work, but for some reason I like it.  Unorthodox in sound, it has a certain ring to [...]

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Downtime Wednesday.  Too hot to work, and the day gig has some interesting side activities that have me distracted.  Hid in Starbucks for a while in the evening playing some chess with the gardener, and did well.  Then home for some chores, and not a note of music was thought. 
Looks like another scorcher today, and [...]

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I’ve was swamped in Monday runabouts yesterday – more than usual and enough to cause me to disrupt any musical schedule I had planned for the evening.  I wanted to continue in discovery the harmony exercise I had started over the weekend, as I had an idea early yesterday on how to approach a few [...]

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Dug into it over the weekend – with sketchbooks in hand, sitting on the couch in the morning, playing musical Sudoko with the voices of this 3 part perpetual canon.  I only found 3 of the voices.  There is no absolute 4th voice.  However, adding some additional pitches does give me the correct harmony in places I was [...]

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I really wish I could do this full time and not have to worry about trivia such as paying the rent.  Then again I am quite glad I don’t have to make my living in the composition field, as it would be quite depressing having deadlines and other pressure creeping into my quality control.  This [...]

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Yesterday, I successfully created a two part canon out of this chain that I have, but failed at my attempts to create more voices out of the same lines.  I haven’t quite given up, and will spend at least one more day struggling to wire one in.  If not, the chain stands, and we can move on.
I [...]

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A mad rush at some personal paperwork killed my musical evening in one blow.  I got in some dictation down to a notebook for my travels in the morning, and did a quick eye on the lines to make sure they aligned,,,but thats about it.  Hit a b minor chord on the piano and closed [...]

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