If you find yourself sometimes lacking imagination in your composing, here’s a suggestion for one way to loosen up your musical ideas. Impose some constraints on what you’re going to compose. Paradoxically, imposing constraints can actually free up your imagination to explore other dimensions of the music that are not under constraint. There are many […]
Entries from April 2008
Freeing up your composing by constraining it
April 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Song Writing and Composing
Computer simulation of a musician playing an instrument
April 3rd, 2008 · 15 Comments
Sometimes this Everyday Musician blog will offer some glimpses into the future of technology for musicians. This one came across my desk today. Researchers (including Mark Bocko) at the University of Rochester have simulated a musician playing an instrument.
The claim of simulating a musician might lend itself to controversy, as well as humor along the […]
Tags: Music Technology
Teaching your children music yourself
April 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
A fantasy that never came true for me is that my family of three children, my wife, and I would make music together. It just didn’t happen, largely because it wasn’t of sufficient priority. I’m afraid that music was just “my own thing”. I didn’t really try at all to pull together a family musical […]