a hundred quirky legs – Page 4 – composing the fantastic with concepts and computers

Composition Exercise #532

What costs are you externalizing in your work?

Compose a piece where the parts are bigger than the whole.

Drum kits in a hail storm.

Messiaen, but fish instead of birds.

You have to learn the rules before you break them,
but you can’t rule the breaks if you don’t play them.

Release yourself from your music.

Compose a piece in which every sonic event is used exactly three times.

Become aware of your expectations and let them go.

Don’t write music that is “backed by science”.

Don’t take your secrets to the grave.