composition – Page 30 – a hundred quirky legs

Composition Exercise #265

Replace all notes with rests and all rests with notes.

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What would radically transform your music for the better?

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Compose an eight chord loop in which each chord uses a different number of pitches, from 1 to 8.

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Compose a melody with a new kind of grammar.

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Orrery

Create a rhythmic structure inspired by a solar system.

The „one“ of a bar is the sun, the beats are planets and the subdivisions their moons.

The whole structure is in motion from bar to bar, each element circling around the next bigger one.

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Go for a walk and record it with a microphone.

At home, skip to a random position in the recording.

Do you know where you were at that moment?

Do you remember individual sounds?

As you listen, do you know what sounds will be coming up?

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Ask skilled musicians who don’t read notation

to use sheet music as graphical scores.

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Write your guest list

in the form of a text score

to be performed by the bouncer.

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Write a score on sand paper.

Ask the musicians to rub their instruments against it to produce the desired sounds.

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Write a piece for electric guitar in which every note is played with a different pick.

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