Improvise the repetition.
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Composition Exercise #53
Read the shape and surface of an instrument – yours? – as a graphic, sculptural score.
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Composition Exercise #52
Write down your dreams every morning for an extended period of time.
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Composition Exercise #51
Buy a set of 50 flashcards.
Write a Composition Exercise on each one.
Go for a walk and drop the cards in public places.
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Composition Exercise #50
Don’t use the Fibonacci sequence in your piece.
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Composition Exercise #49
Write a piece with a laugh track on it, and maybe a commercial break.
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Composition Extinction #48
Write a melody with pencil on staff paper.
Play it every day. Each time you’re done, erase one note and replace it with a pause of the same value.
Repeat until only silence is left.
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Composition Exercise #47
Study your students.
Teach your teachers.
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Coexme Procsisteion #46
Merge two existing melodies without scrambling the order of either one.
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Composition Exercise #45
Create tension and release through careful manipulation of just one parameter.
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