photo credit: Magnera
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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Weekly Status Update
Thursday
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 [...]
A Long Sleep
photo credit: Stepheye
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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Composing Status Update #50
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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Illumination
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 [...]
The Thread of Musical Thought
photo credit: Corey Leopold
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 [...]
Composing Status Update #47
photo credit: batintherain
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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