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One Man's Journey Through Composition: Conditions, preconceptions, and assumptions
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One Man's Journey Through Composition. Attempting to write about music both mine and others. Conditions, preconceptions, and assumptions. There's been a flurry of activity these days revolving around those buzzwords. Jeffrey Nytch wrote a case-study. Now, to build off of those comments, as well as previous. One of the main points I've been making is philosophical, a "chicken and the egg" type koan: piece/idea or consumer first? That makes me feel angry! What's wrong with putting them first? I prefer Jura...
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One Man's Journey Through Composition: 07/14
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One Man's Journey Through Composition. Attempting to write about music both mine and others. In case you hadn't noticed, my blogging has ceased. I'm tired of throwing out ideas into the seething mass of internet information, seeing no change, interactive little, and not even knowing if any change is being affected. I still get irritated, worked up, and generally feel the need to yell my opinion, but it all feels impotent now. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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One Man's Journey Through Composition: The end
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One Man's Journey Through Composition. Attempting to write about music both mine and others. In case you hadn't noticed, my blogging has ceased. I'm tired of throwing out ideas into the seething mass of internet information, seeing no change, interactive little, and not even knowing if any change is being affected. I still get irritated, worked up, and generally feel the need to yell my opinion, but it all feels impotent now. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
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One Man's Journey Through Composition: When Kronos came to town
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One Man's Journey Through Composition. Attempting to write about music both mine and others. When Kronos came to town. I take this break from my normal rhetoric to bring a concert review. The program is as follows. Traditional, Smyrneiko Minore. Terry Riley, Serquent Risadome. For string quartet and kantele. George Crumb, Black Angels. 1st encore, Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze. 2nd encore, Laurie Anderson, Push. Geeshie Wiley's Last Kind Words. Below are the lyrics:. Stanza 5: I went to the depot, I looked u...
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One Man's Journey Through Composition: On Experimentalism, pt. 2
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One Man's Journey Through Composition. Attempting to write about music both mine and others. On Experimentalism, pt. 2. In my first post on experimentalism. The personal level is accepting a mode of thinking and acting that revolves around experimentation. This means actively studying new techniques and ideas, being open to ideas from all areas, and entering with a sort of scientific mind-set. What do I mean by a scientific mind-set? I am a composer that is endlessly experimenting. My time in college...
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One Man's Journey Through Composition: An Interview with Anders Bjorler
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One Man's Journey Through Composition. Attempting to write about music both mine and others. An Interview with Anders Bjorler. An interview with Anders Björler. The hotel is decidedly Swedish. The bed is small, with a mattress pad. The hotel is a bit off the main roads, tucked into apartment buildings. Still, it’s fairly nice, especially for the price. Worth the 500 meter walk from Central Station. We met at a Starbucks in Central Station. I was sipping an Americano to warm my hands. Sweden gets ...He as...
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One Man's Journey Through Composition: Exactitude of language...
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One Man's Journey Through Composition. Attempting to write about music both mine and others. Is incredibly important. If you follow this blog, you've probably seen one of my trends over the past year is to critique the language. Used by critics, and to get around their troublesome use of words. S These definitions are sometimes literal, sometimes societal, and usually a created through combining the two. This gets to a certain sticky point (and one debated by philosophers extensively): meaning. A little ...
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One Man's Journey Through Composition: 03/14
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One Man's Journey Through Composition. Attempting to write about music both mine and others. Music, Mathematics, and Logic. And, no, not the DAW. For the past week, I've been working on learning LilyPond. LilyPond is text-based music engraving software. Frescobaldi is a front-end interface that helps speed things along, with quick insertion, a code snippet repository built in, auto-fill typing, and a preview window that links to your code. Incredibly handy for spotting errors. Here are my answers:. As a ...
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