Tuesday, November 07, 2006
12:15:20 PM
So the second day is half done and I am still organizing and I have begun feeding the machine. I have made a list of the pieces I wish to write and I have begun collecting models and inspiration for the music – I am listening to the Chieftains right now.
For years things have been simmering, ideas and concepts that I wished to explore and now is the time, time to write and time to grow. It takes work to be the best composer in the world.
So I am ready now to spend the next little while borging, scouring far and wide for inspiration as I build a better sense of what interests me and how to get my modern chamber pieces to have immediacy of impact.
I know it is possible, I already have some vague idea on how to achieve this, but there are things I need to clarify in my mind, on a conceptual level.
So I must be patient as I feed the machine. I can already predict it – I will listen and read and the creative pressure will build until the ideas start flowing. Then the momentum will build and one idea will lead to the next.
I don’t feel that I am able to come up with ideas right now, that I would force it too much. I need a clearer vision first.
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Borging: This is a word I made up. In Star Trek, the Borg are an alien species that assimilate beings into their collective consciousness. When “borging” my goal is to assimilate the essence of a piece into my own consciousness without resorting to empty imitation or mimicry.
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