"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
I fixed the overture
So I thought to myself that I could wait until I finished writing and scoring Act II, maybe some of
Exponential vs. expediential
So when I wrote, yesterday, that the best way to learn that you aren't half as brilliant as
Ravel and MELISANDE
It's time to show my work, so here we go:
This is the first movement of the Ravel
Project management
"Enter the Princes" is finished, which means it's time to start bringing people over to the
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
Games and wagers
"Exponential" is scored, which means that I am very likely to both start and finish "Enter the
More Middlemarch, more MELISANDE
I am testing out several different ways of accompanying the exponential growth number for MELISANDE, by which I mean I&
Middlemarch and MELISANDE
(It's a little hard to tell because Ghost blurs the words before the paywall, but I recorded and
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
"I Want"
I started scoring the "I Want" song this week. Originally I had meant it as a fairly straightforward
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
Small changes change everything
I said I would tell you about one of the small changes I made to MELISANDE, so here you go
I want a space for people who are serious about making things
First of all, I have discovered that I can make minor edits in MELISANDE even as I do everything else
Why am I writing this music specifically?
I had sort of forgotten that MELISANDE was meant to be a student theater piece.
Over the past few months
More thoughts on musicals, and a few thoughts on keeping an audience's attention
MELISANDE update! The Queen's song is final-first-drafted, which is to say that all of the musical elements except
