Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Rainy Day Clouds

So the clouds assignment is wrecking my mind. I have always defined. music by it being at least EITHER melodic or rhythmic, and hopefully both. So to create something that fits in neither category is definitely creating a challenge for me.
Part of my difficulty is coming from the fact that clouds to me is that I am used to plotting out my pieces based on some sort of plan or theme, and I feel like any plan or theme I use will impose either tonality or rhythm on the piece. I am experimenting with trying to overcome this two ways. In a couple of my cloud pieces I am deliberately trying to do less plotting, and focus more time on pulling together parts of more improvisational selections I make using the patches for MSP.
The other technique I am trying is to take the plotting i do and abstract the organization another layer, so single beats or notes are not organized, but so that sections are, even as they fade and flow into each other. Hope it works!

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