Monday, November 06, 2006
Alright, today I started the chamber music CD process. I didn’t write anything this morning, just organized my binder and went through my previous ideas. I have a lot of leftover ideas but I find they do not fit my current objectives of musical language and style.
I started organizing my goals for the CD as well - what type of pieces I want to write, possible instrumentation, anything that can give the process focus and direction.
Organizing and goal-setting are no activities that hinder creative thought, quite the opposite I find – it focuses it. It’s like getting inspired by a story or an image or the scene in a film, these extra-musical stimuli are a great boon to idea generation. It’s a lot easier to get somewhere if you have a destination.
So spending the time organizing the concept for the album is a wonderful way to focus my creative energies. But that doesn’t mean I block myself from ideas that don’t fit these criteria. The way I see it, have a general plan – for a single piece or multiple pieces – then adjust as you go. You have a direction but might wind up someplace else entirely, and that’s perfect.
And so, with these words, the journey begins.
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