Composition Exercise #261

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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Setting a reminder is an act of composition

Setting a reminder on your phone is an act of composition: deciding and initiating that a certain thing is to happen – and, literally, a sound is to be played – at a certain point in the future.

Setting multiple, even many, such reminders creates a polyphony, a polyrhythm of intentions. Such an approach lends itself to systematization and automation.

Taking a systematic, flexible and thus generative approach to handling our  intentions, commitments and observations is to move towards a life in which these can begin to resonate with each other: a move towards integrity and growth.

Davos, December 29, 2017 / Biel, January 3, 2018