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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 too much about the materials [...]

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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 work.
Beginning, I just let the [...]

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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 work.  Feeling pretty good about [...]

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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 then suddenly wholla, something else [...]

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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 can hear the whole piece [...]

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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, I leave open this section [...]

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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.  I had hopes that it [...]

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On this Saturday, after catching up on errands and exercise, I started in on notating down the opening measures, which turned into an exercise of relativity.  Notating down the accompaniment – is it 4/4 with 8th notes; or is it 7/4 with quarters; or is it 3:2 8th notes in 4/4; or [...]

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