a hundred quirky legs – Page 31 – composing the fantastic with concepts and computers

Composition Exercise #267

Interview music, again and again.

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Write a personal credo.

You don’t have to tell anybody –

do it just to see how it feels.

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Replace all notes with rests and all rests with notes.

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What would radically transform your music for the better?

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Compose an eight chord loop in which each chord uses a different number of pitches, from 1 to 8.

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Compose a melody with a new kind of grammar.

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Orrery

Create a rhythmic structure inspired by a solar system.

The „one“ of a bar is the sun, the beats are planets and the subdivisions their moons.

The whole structure is in motion from bar to bar, each element circling around the next bigger one.

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Go for a walk and record it with a microphone.

At home, skip to a random position in the recording.

Do you know where you were at that moment?

Do you remember individual sounds?

As you listen, do you know what sounds will be coming up?

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Ask skilled musicians who don’t read notation

to use sheet music as graphical scores.

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