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This week I circled back to the safety (and composing boredom) of stricter technique as I explored the possibility of using the 8-set as an opening theme.  I, at least as of this writing, came to a compromise that using my current language will add a maturity, and help construct particular sections [...]

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Fog is it? 
Last evening, a reversal of sorts…opening with the secondary minorish thematic, I attempted to connect the two themes together into a pseudo air.  I only was somewhat successful.  Playing around some with it, I sort of concluded…at least for the evening…that I should try and rewrite the minorish theme to something more [...]

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Another straight day of a cold wave in the music dept.  A lot of piano activity, but very little to show.  A light edge of polish.  And a bit of a surprize – another harmonization of the main thematic.  I can’t say it will work, but maybe?  It’s minorish, but is that good or is [...]

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Some might contend the organizational powers that exist in the world have exclusive rights on what is art and what is not.  And some might contend that the public and mass virality makes the deciding factor in what art is and is not.  The first example might apply to artists that range [...]

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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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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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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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All this improv and writing has infested my ears with Ear Worms again.  Yeah, they’re back – those fuzzy caterpillars with musical legs. I can’t get rid of all these themes in my head…and not just the main themes but also the accompaniment patterns.  
So, I’m filled with all these pieces spinning around inside of me…waking in the middle [...]

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