Visit one of your childhood homes.
Ask the current inhabitants if they’d let you record sounds in the room where you made your first sound recordings.
If they let you in, thank them by also playing them the recordings you made as a child.
Tag: memory
Composition Exercise #260
Go for a walk and record it with a microphone.
At home, skip to a random position in the recording.
Do you know where you were at that moment?
Do you remember individual sounds?
As you listen, do you know what sounds will be coming up?
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Composition Exercise #177
Raise a pet
and care well for it
for as long as it lives.
After its passing, honor it
by making flutes
and drum sticks
from its bones
and playing
beautiful music
in its memory.
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Composition Exercise #161
Use a piece of music as a memory palace.
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