Category: Composing

Notes on writing music

New Year’s Resolutions

A New Years Resolutions thread at Sequenza 21 reminded me about making New Year’s resolutions. There’s so many needs tugging at me, but all I want to do is make musical plans. I want to remedy my lack of momentum of the past few months. Everyone knows – economic times are tough. They’re tough here   Read More...

Playing a Virtual Orchestra

Although I seem to write mostly music notated on paper for live performers, I’ve always been interested in computer tools for composing and sound design. I started my recording business a few years ago because I wanted to put my audio tools to more use. Last year, I decided to invest in the sophisticated sampled   Read More...

Notes on writing “The Future of Life”

It’s never been easy for me to find poetry that I want to use for choral music. Most seems too intimate. Essays have been what grabs me. It seems that choral music with all those voices needs to be about something big. So after reading The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, entomologist and   Read More...