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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:59:07 EST
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- From: Jon Crystal <OFABJC%UVMADMIN.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: Compositional Approaches
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- To add to Joe M.'s comment on saving fragments of work-in-process: I too often
- work initially from short improvisational sketches which I return to later. I h
- ave gotten into the habit of saving these (usually as single tracks) into the s
- ame sequence file, so I can call up all my half-baked ideas at once. One real v
- alue I've found in this approach is the serendipity of juxtaposing/combining th
- ese fragments in random combinations, which sometimes leads to new ideas.
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- Wasn't it Schoenberg who said composition is simply frozen improvisation?
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- Jon
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