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Left Brain (LB):  Oh man!  What insight!  Such a stratification of like materials.  Intervalic saturation.  Really unique musical designs.  Here you go, Right Brain, you can now compose with it.
Right Brain(RB) :  Are you fricken crazy?  What do you want me to do with this crap?
LB:  This is intelligent design stuff.  Musical [...]

Continue reading " Dinner with Right Brain / Left Brain "

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Made it to the end of the opening violin phrase.  Rushed it a bit to close the string of notes I was bent on using.  Going to rework it tomorrow.  Clarify it a bit.  Do I like any of it?  Won’t worry about it too soon – hard to swallow, unless…a few [...]

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been about 4 months since I’ve posted anything here.  Time became a mixing pot of many life indecisions and choices, and when the settlement came, I was left with a few stories and very few answers.  Nothing is ever concluded.
Over the course of the [...]

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Trying to start the habit again of writing about whatever I am thinking about as it related to my own continual growth as a composer, or a virtual thinking one, I am back here at the old blog.  I guess its been almost 2 years since I started this thing.  Time really [...]

Continue reading " Back at the Helm "

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It’s been a while since I’ve been motivated to write anything here regarding music.  Part of this sleep has been the transition and imbalance in my mind on what I want to do with music in general – which I believe I have indicated well enough with my most recent rants and regurgitations.  Another [...]

Continue reading " A Long Sleep "

Unfortunately, nothing is happening in the musical front this last week or two.  I’ve been extremely busy with some life issues, but hope to be back online in a little while.
Side thoughts take me into improvisation, and working with sequencers only.  I’m not sure writing music down on paper is on the forefront.  I believe [...]

Continue reading " Busy and Slow "

It’s such a mistake to think that there is this thick line in life separating commercial music and art music, or that it can be contained in the confines of originality or profoundness.  What I’m getting from bending my own rules about where to draw inflences, floors me.  
With Tori, the concept album becomes lieder. [...]

Continue reading " Tori Amos – More Study "

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Cold.  More spontaneous improvisation, but nothing on paper or in the sequencer.  Spent most of this week writing letters to old friends, and catching up on day gig activities after two weeks.  Listened to a bunch of Schuman lieder and late Brahms piano works.  The usual RV Williams orchestral stuff.
A book [...]

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