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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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Short and sweet composerly evening.  Looked at secondary tetrachords – 4-note sets that are embedded in a series of common hexachords within the octad that I am working with.  Why?  Well, it can add as secondary harmony and contrast to what I have in the main tetrachord I am working with for this movement.  A [...]

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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 [...]

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Hard to believe 50 weeks have gone by, and on 7/16/2008 we celebrated a one year anniversary of this blog.  Although its been more of a vanity web page, this site has helped me in a lot of ways capture my thoughts as I struggle to work through my ideas and my own personal growth in the area of [...]

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Finished the first turkey book last evening.  Hard to say if anyone but myself would enjoy it here.  Since I am attached to these local hybrids, the authors relationship with the birds I can identify with that maybe someone who hasn’t experienced it may find the writing somewhat redundant and un-interesting.  He describes in extreme detail [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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