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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:26:23 CST
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- From: Mark Borcherding <borch@UGLI.TSD.ITG.TI.COM>
- Subject: Re: Compositional Approaches
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- Jon,
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- > To add to Joe M.'s comment on saving fragments of work-in-process: I too often
- > work initially from short improvisational sketches which I return to later. I
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- > ave gotten into the habit of saving these (usually as single tracks) into the
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- > ame sequence file, so I can call up all my half-baked ideas at once. One real
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- > alue I've found in this approach is the serendipity of juxtaposing/combining
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- > ese fragments in random combinations, which sometimes leads to new ideas.
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- > Wasn't it Schoenberg who said composition is simply frozen improvisation?
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- > Jon
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- I agree. What is wrong with operating in this mode?
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- Mark.
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