composition – Page 41 – a hundred quirky legs

Composition Exercise #155

Record your soundcheck, transcribe it and arrange it for orchestra.

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Reverberate gratification.

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Play your instrument backwards.

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Let your ears breathe.

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Track the ecological footprint of your instrument(s).

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Exercise your body regularly to increase your wellbeing, your ability to focus and thus your ability to compose.

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Create a score that is so huge that musicians have to read it from a mile away.

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Use every knob to control two or more seemingly unrelated parameters.

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Write a piece for a wooden instrument.

When you’re done, go plant a tree.

Cut it down ten years from now,

and build the instrument

on which your piece will be premiered.

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Visit your local music stores and music schools and put up signs such as

„Wanted: Live sampling specialist“

„Algorithmic composer wanted for our string trio“

“Singer wanted, preferrably with autotune experience.”

„Live electronics player wanted for our rock band“

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