Composition Exercise #218

Let go of the dream of having a music career based on flying around in airplanes. It is a dream from another age, and future peers will not look back on it with kindness.

In solidarity and with gratitude for the XR movement.


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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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