Pam Marshall's notes about composing music, teaching, improvising, music software, nature


Tag: creativity

  • Private Creative Process

    I’ve read praise for composer-bloggers who share their struggles and rejections. It’s the inside story that people want to read. Readers won’t find much insight if all you write is self-promotion and self-praise.

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  • Contests as inspiration

    Sometimes a contest specification resonates with a project I already want to do…

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  • Does making art engender hope? Or does hope cause artists to create?

    I’m not accustomed to giving speeches, but yesterday I collaborated with two colleagues, poet Regie Gibson and visual artist Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer, to present a convocation at Fisher College. We speechified; we performed poetry with piano accompaniment; we displayed visual art on easels and projected large on the stage. Our topic was collaboration, how we’ve…

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