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ComposerBastard has kept rather quiet and to himself these last couple of months, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been thinking about his work.  Sometimes, you hit a wall – not in the writing process, but in the arching philosophical question of what you want the piece to be or rather what [...]

Continue reading " Doors "

Finally fixed into the new place, I have been spending disciplined time visiting cello and orchestra works and playing the piano a bit over the weekend structuring bits and pieces of these notes into some memory of a work.  Memory?  Oh yes, because I forgot how I constructed them and have a need to at [...]

Continue reading " Slowly Ramping Up "

Weekend was a mixed bag of activities, as I scramble in my usual way to get everything done that I have no time for during the formal week.  We started with a much needed haircut and ended with finalizing the interval cycle’s last segment, placing the last chord about 1/2 hour before sleepy time.
Am I happy with [...]

Continue reading " End of a Line "

More delay, as I install some updates from Apple and do some housekeeping on my systems.  I did slip in some time harmonizing – this time starting at the end of the phrase and working backwards, which is the best way to work.  My big question is how are these chords going to play in [...]

Continue reading " More Delay "

Performed a diff over the XML files for Sibelius Sound Sets for VSL.  The latest version renamed instruments, and  did not have correct titles or filenames.  This ended up breaking all my large orchestral templates as they failed to play the correct instruments or load properly.  The idiots who decided to make these modifications failed [...]

Continue reading " Back in the Sad-Hill "

No progress over the weekend as I had planned.  Excessive heat, housekeeping priorities, and software issues prevented any music making.  A Sibelius and VSL Security upgrade caused havoc with the score writing package.  I temporarily rolled back to a previous release (thank you Time Machine) and need to play around some more with the new [...]

Continue reading " Side Tracked "

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 [...]

Continue reading " Composing Status Update #55 "

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Saturday, I put some hours into this chair and started to use Sibelius to capture some of the notations and sketches of this violin work.  Of course, its not flushed and true, but it outlines that it needs to be expanded in depth here and there,  so, it’s serving a purpose.  And, [...]

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