Chamber CD - Day 13

Saturday, November 18, 2006
08:39 AM

Just been writing for an hour and half. Got some stuff, violin lines mostly. Using violin concerti as models; Mendelssohn, Spohr and a few more.

I realized yesterday that, when I was playing with ides, I was trying to organize them already – writing a beginning, a phrase structure right away. But it was clear to me that my mind doesn’t work like that, at least not at first. The ideas come, scattered and random, feeding on each other, almost like they are trying to outdo each other, vying for my attention “You think that’s cool? Look over here, check this out!” And if I tell the new idea to hang on a minute as I try to shape the first idea then that new idea usually tells me to never mind and goes away.

I am still too slow. Wrote a page of ideas. That’s not enough. I’ll do better tomorrow.