Trying New Things
Comments (0) I’m still working on the wind symphony piece, but it’s not going well. The most likely reason for this is that I’m suffering from writer’s block due to my removal lack of artistic stimulus (in other words, I need to get my ass into SCENE Metrospace this weekend). In fact, of the three complete drafts thus far, only about four pages are usable.
With that in mind, I’ve gone back to the drawing board to attempt to literally draw something in the hope that my heretofore un-diagnosed (and completely made up) synesthesia will manifest itself. The results are below. A word of explanation – the main idea of the piece is fragmentation, similar to the way a book might become brittle and decayed/missing random sections over time.
The question now becomes; do I continue to work from abstractions in a purely electronic environment, or do I immediately try to make the jump to pencil and staff paper?
Both have their associated issues – electronics means either penciling in a sequencer, or limiting myself to piano (which usually ends up pretty boring), while pencil and paper removes the immediacy of prototyping contrapuntal textures and register shifts. In any case, it looks like I’ve still got my work cut out for me.
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