composition exercise – Page 21 – a hundred quirky legs

Composition Exercise #354

Where is your place in music?

Where is its place in you?

Learn when to advance into music,

and when to retreat into it.

Study computer silence.

Speak when spoken through.

Don’t yell at the compass.

Lobby call
Lobby chant
Lobby choir
Lobby scream
Lobby Urschrei
Lobby moan
Lobby sigh
Lobby whisper
Lobby response

Desperate measures.

Playout, not workout.

Become an emergent property of musical history.

If a friend told you about their favorite record of the decade, what kind of effort would you make to understand why they feel that way?