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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 [...]

Continue reading " Waves "

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Conscious effort to concentrate these last two nights on finding an entrance and philosophy for this new work for cello and whatever lead to simple piano work and what I think is a real balance between the narrative musical elements of a solo instrument and my non-narrative ComposerBastard needs of these [...]

Continue reading " Piano Lessons "

I’m trying to come to terms with a number of things today regarding what I am supposed to be writing vs. what I think I should.  Right now, collecting cobwebs on my desk are four general overarching works:  a set of orchestral like variations of which 6 have been sketched to a point that they [...]

Continue reading " A Voice "

The weekend was a flat zero productivity.  It’s almost a joke these days, or some strange Ionesco play I am stuck in where the composer is never able to write either because of interruptions or exhaustion or self made.  But, Saturday, I spent the entire day chasing down records for this new doctor I am going to [...]

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A shorter weekend than I had planned on music, I wish I had spent more time working on the current plan.  I still made great progress on analyzing some of the material for this opening.  On a more microscopic view, the ordering of the notes revealed a latent permutation, which with additional organization [...]

Continue reading " The Thread of Musical Thought "

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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 [...]

Continue reading " Composing Status Update #47 "

 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 [...]

Continue reading " …and Neither Will Improvisation… "