Electronic musicians,
learn to play an acoustic instrument
so you’re prepared for a time after a reliable electric grid.
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Use distortion on everything except the guitars.
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Write a Thank You letter to someone who influenced your own growth as an artist.
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Compose a polyphonic melody, then write a monophonic fugue on it.
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Completely rip off someone else’s tweet and retroactively use it as a Composition Exercise:
Completely rip off Tobias Reber’s Composition Exercises series and build a Twitter account around it. Post every day.
Composition Exercise #190
Completely rip off Tobias Reber's Composition Exercises series and build a Twitter account around it.
Post every day.@tobiasreber— NonCochlearPosting (@NonCochlear) September 13, 2018
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Give a fellow musician sound advice.
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Remember that there are generous ears waiting to hear you expressing yourself.
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Think of a way you haven’t listened before, then listen that way.
[I’m giving an afternoon class on “Kann man Hören lernen? (Can we learn to listen?)” at the Swiss Chamber Music Festival Adelboden. The course takes place in Kandersteg, Switzerland on September 15th, 2-5pm. Info and registration here.]
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Fold a paper boat from every page of Händel’s Water Music and let them float away on a river.
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Sonify Beethoven’s Fifth.
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