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Re: Approaches to Composition

Date1999-06-03 00:57
FromMichael Rhoades
SubjectRe: Approaches to Composition
    I sincerely hope I did not offend. I originally asked the question
because I am facinated with the different ways people work with their
creative endevours. My creative outlet definately does not preclude any
other. In fact, I am not even sure the pieces I compose are worth anything
to anyone. I am driven to work a certain way and, like anyone else, I have
to follow my creative urges or I'd probably go insane. However, one way I
learn and expand my way of working is by seeing what others are thinking and
doing. I really appreciate your input and again I am sorry if I stepped on
your toes.
     BTW... I am an electrical engineering technician with very little
formal musical or programming training at all, although I have been
composing in more "traditional" ways for over 15 years now. I have been
learning  how to use csound on my own for about a year. It's a very slow
process studying computer music texts, the Csound manual, tutorials, various
computer music compositions and the postings here. But the precise control
it gives me over the instruments and the composition is a life long dream
come true making it all worthwhile. :)

> i think of myself as not too stupid.  that is, I am open to new revisions
of
> thought and purpose.  I fear though, after a number of years of such kinds
> of clothing for an emporere, and espcially after reading yet more remarks
on
> a compositionaly 'language' . . . .
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> I confess:  I am just an old time piano picker.  I only have IQ of 200 or
> so, and so all these things pass me by, the objects, the this, the lovely
> discontinuously interactviley coded libations of serendipiptous salacious
> stuff.  I'd love to generate all that sort of algrithmic stuff too, all
that
> GOD help us all STUFF, that sounds just so sweet, in the end, and don't
hou
> know, and, after all.
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> never thought I'd be antidiesablistionmentary.  but there it is.  can we
> take these nested geraniums, these horror come lately algrithms, these
wordy
> THINGS, and make music??
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> I reckon some can, and there is where the future leaves me away . . some
> can, but I cannot,  I don't have degrees in C_++ and nested structures,
and
> iterative functions, and all that relaly (really) PURTY sounding kind of
> thing. I want to, though.  I really do, to shore up my nothing here to
fore
> music kind of knowlege, nothing at all.  no java, no objects.  just notes.
> (never thought I'd be a musical redneck . . well . . I'm not, I'm just
> saying, hey, I'm an ignorant nothing with just two degrees in music, and
40
> years experience, and this stuff sounds like the face of mars to me.  just
> thought I'd try to refresh the lot.
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> flame away, if you need.
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