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Friday, 15 August 2008

Baby steps ::

So, of course the improvisation I was most interested in transforming into a composition is 9 minutes long and very intricate. Yesterday I spent some time trying to put a click to the improv, made some progress, but ended up feeling overwhelmed and discouraged.

Today I picked another, shorter one (2 minutes) and was encouraged to have recorded a reasonable click in one pass (with just a little manual fixup at the beginning). And it didn’t take too long after that to build a coordinate system (meter and tempo tracks). At this point the idea is to push on whatever fronts seem productive and leave the others for another time where I’m feeling stronger and with some creative momentum.

Running errands this morning I was also a bit inspired by Ethel (a string quartet) on the iPod. There’s an idea to compose for string quartet on top of the piano parts.

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