composition exercise – Page 3 – a hundred quirky legs

Composition Exercise #535

Positive harmony.

Listen to musicians in a way that teaches them to play.

Write music that teaches people to hear.

What is your key takeaway from atonal music?

What costs are you externalizing in your work?

Compose a piece where the parts are bigger than the whole.

Drum kits in a hail storm.

Messiaen, but fish instead of birds.

You have to learn the rules before you break them,
but you can’t rule the breaks if you don’t play them.

Release yourself from your music.

Compose a piece in which every sonic event is used exactly three times.