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@Robusto Being serious for a minute, here's my work-in-progress folder right now for your eyes only:
As in, literally at least once a week I fire up every single one of them and don't close it again until I've made progress. Even if it's just writing one bar. Even if it's just throwing one bar away.
Really that's my one rule that I have. Every day, play at least one measure, and every day, write at least one measure down.
Note how there's a whole sub-folder "Sketches". That's all the things I'm not working on. Actual sketches. The stuff you're seeing here is all past that stage.
In fact a few are actually finished pieces, as you can tell from the names. It's just that it's only now I'm actually writing them down for the first time.
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@RegDwigнt Let's just say the difference is that Cormac McCarthy convinced me he'd left nothing out; you didn't. I was having fun enjoying the music earlier and then it came to a rather sudden end. I felt then, and I feel now, that you could have done with a bit more development.
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You write music in which your fans love, but then you also write fanfiction in which your fans love. And then you get a side job in which your fans love.
I've had people say I would be wasting my talent by not becoming a pianist, a guitarist, a mathematician, a typographer, a racing cyclist, a LEGO designer, a professional World of Tanks player, a chemist, a translator.
@Robusto yeah that bugged me a great deal last night after turning off the PC. I should have started with a "thank you".
@Robusto I might agree. I could go on forever. I could give you ten minutes of music no problem. And I wouldn't mind doing that. I wouldn't mind listening to it myself.
It's the whole point really. And I am actually enjoying that in a way. All these tidbits. Gone in sixty seconds.
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@RegDwigнt I think you could squeeze more out of the Mandelstam. Listen to these songs based on fragments of poems by Kenneth Patchen:
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@Robusto yeah that's very good. I will need to do something very similar for his poems that are even shorter, of which he has quite a handful, including possibly the most famous one, which is only two lines. A single sentence that does not even have a predicate, just the subject.
Roughly, "The careful and muted sound of a falling fruit amid the incessant song of the deep silence of the forest".
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