Nice to be able to get back to learning composition after a while travelling!
After several pieces working on composing for string orchestra I'm now into the giddy heights of wind quartet composition and modulating between keys ... Wish me luck! 🫣
Hey guess what, videos are finally being released from Chipspace's showcases for 2024 starting with
nmlstyl! https://youtu.be/Yb-kN5iq9Fo
Bonus MCing from Sam Mulligan
(Special thanks to GeekBeat Radio for hosting!) #chiptunes#chiptune#magfest#chipspace
(I'll be threading these as they're released)
Imagine you learned #composing using #Dorico amd thus looked at the included #Sample files like "Clocks" from Coldplay.
Do you now owe Coldplay's collecting angency/record label perpetual licensing fees for all your works since you learned using their copyrighted material?
Trying to write a highly derivative piece for cello. It's interesting playing by such established rules: On the one hand I'm sure I must have heard this progression before. On the other, the math works in favour of originality (well, "originality") for every note I add... unless I'm unconsciously copying an actual thing that I've heard (which is what it feels like!)
I play the bassoon and compose and arrange music. I'm also probably the person that helps your parents with their tech, especially of the Apple kind.
My heritage is French Canadian with a little Polish thrown in for the crazy. I'm working on bettering my French again but understand more than I can say.
Trying a new approach to using recursion for composing. Here, each sound event triggers up to two additional sound events, each a function of the triggering event.
This is so different from the way we teach #music and #musicTheory, where almost all of the focus is on recognizing and naming various musical elements.
When #composing, I’m sometimes very analytical, but often I prefer to avoid naming—to pay close attention to the connections I feel between things without trying to define what exactly they are.
Today I feel determined to have a good game dev day but I'm not sure what this would look like? Should I code only to find I'm no good at it? Work on graphics at the wrong resolution? Record music in the wrong key? Maybe design a scene that I'll later realise is unnecessary? Perhaps spend all day on a bad animation. The endless possibilities... #gamedev#csharp#gamedesign#composing#animation#adventuregamefriday
For me at least, this question is more likely to shut down #creativity than get it flowing. Maybe worth considering before I commit to making something, but not helpful to think about once in the process.
Last week @terjefjelde asked me about my #composing techniques, use of #musicTechnology, and thoughts about #musicProduction, and I promised to reply when I had more time. Here’s a too-long thread about this and other things that came to mind…
In terms of my #composing methods, I’m basically a dinosaur. I scribble sketches with pencil and paper, check them out on a piano, and I used to prepare scores and parts in careful calligraphy with a fountain pen. No tech involved except what’s been around for centuries.
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