composition – Page 12 – a hundred quirky legs

Composition Exercise #446

Write a 20+ part text score for solo electric guitar.

Release it in the form of a metal tour T-shirt.

Instead of listing the tour stops on the back,

simply list the score, one line per part.

Write your score on police tape.

For the first part of your performance,

mark the stage instead of a crime scene.

For the second part, play.

Glue your ears together.

Leave Lars Ulrich alone FFS.

Create a sine wave about that time you got beat up in the schoolyard.

Refactor your composition.

Write a piece for choir in which all singers wear face masks and are free to walk around the room).

Each mask has a pitch or phrase written on it that others can read and sing, using a tuning fork to find the correct pitch.

Other instructions such as groups of notes to choose from, onomatopoetic words or text scores are also possible.

Expression through abstraction.

Change the way you compose.
Compose the way you change.

Use the intervals from one melody as a transposition row for another melody.

If they don’t have the same amount of intervals, permutate them until they meet again at their respective beginnings.