2025 Thoughts
✦ March
On mimicry and mapping
One of the things I've learned, as I've started accompanying various local choirs and community theater
MELISANDE
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
In which I actually write a love song
There's a paragraph in The Biographies of Ordinary People in which Meredith realizes that she does not know
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
I've written this song before
I began drafting Act II of MELISANDE this morning. I'll put the roughest draft of the first song
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Writing out MELISANDE Act II
I changed the one part of the end-of-act number, otherwise known as "Tea Sequence (and Consequence)," that hadn&
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
"deliberate attempts to understand, capture, and replicate information through observation and the application of tools"
I've started scoring the end-of-act number, and I've got this feeling like it's going
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
I fixed the overture
So I thought to myself that I could wait until I finished writing and scoring Act II, maybe some of
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Exponential vs. expediential
So when I wrote, yesterday, that the best way to learn that you aren't half as brilliant as
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Ravel and MELISANDE
It's time to show my work, so here we go:
This is the first movement of the Ravel
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Project management
"Enter the Princes" is finished, which means it's time to start bringing people over to the
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Showing my work (and more thoughts on work in general)
The MELISANDE excerpt will be behind the paywall as usual, and if you are curious why I even have a
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Games and wagers
"Exponential" is scored, which means that I am very likely to both start and finish "Enter the
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✦ January
More Middlemarch, more MELISANDE
I am testing out several different ways of accompanying the exponential growth number for MELISANDE, by which I mean I&
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Middlemarch and MELISANDE
(It's a little hard to tell because Ghost blurs the words before the paywall, but I recorded and
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
The thing about creating an integrated work of art
I began scoring the "exponential growth" number for MELISANDE this morning. This will be a complicated piece because
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
"I Want"
I started scoring the "I Want" song this week. Originally I had meant it as a fairly straightforward
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
The thing about doing good work
...is that you know when it is good.
And when the work is good, you don't spend a