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Composition Exercise #436

Listen to a piece of music

as if it were composed by a good friend

who just told you they think it’s the beginning

of a new phase in their work.

Visit one of your childhood homes.

Ask the current inhabitants if they’d let you record sounds in the room where you made your first sound recordings.

If they let you in, thank them by also playing them the recordings you made as a child.

Compose a series of interlinked pieces in which there are flashbacks, flash forwards and flash sideways.

Talk about silence.
Be quiet about silence.
Talk about sound.
Be quiet about sound.

Create an audio description of your score.

What are your bass assumptions?

Resist checking your phone

while listening to a song,

while listening to an album,

while practising at home,

while rehearsing with your band,

while playing a concert.

New work for variable ensemble and open duration (world premiere), N.N. (composition), date/venue tba

Does your music contribute to the urgent ongoing transformation of human consciousness?

Look up the lyrics for a famous song that you’ve never heard, and write the music as you imagine it.