For a set period of time, complete every piece before you begin the next one.
Tag: composition
Composition Exercise #384
Write a modular piece of music and distribute the parts as a large network of signposts in a forest, each pointing to several possible ways of continuing the performance.
Composition Exercise #383
Reverse Atlas Eclipticalis II
Take a map of the skies
and draw winding staves
in such a way that the stars align
to spell out the Moonlight Sonata.
Composition Exercise #382
Reverse Atlas Eclipticalis I
Copy a page of music onto a sheet of transparent plastic
and place it over a map of your vicinity.
Go for a walk along where the notes fall on the map
and play or sing the corresponding pitches.
Composition Exercise #381
Write a history of music with the following three narrators:
- the fifth staff line
- the Tristan chord
- the first sine tone generator
Composition Exercise #380
Listen again, but only in your mind.
Composition Exercise #379
Don’t play status cymbals.
Composition Exercise #378
Do you want the tools to be inspiring?
When, and how, and how much?
Composition Exercise #377
Refine it to its rawest.
Composition Exercise #376
Unisolo.