Talking to Terry (at 97 beats per minute) before last night's session.
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Creative Process
Been loving this week - here is the intro to Coyote - all based around the E7 - giving the core to the strings and letting the piano dance around it:
[audio:coyote-e7.mp3| titles= Coyote - E7 Intro|artists=music2work2 ]
Funky Ass Week Again
It is so tempting to write about the creative process - suffice to say:
- This piece came about after abandoning the approach I had used for 4 weeks
- It still took me several takes to get there
- In making this leap I also made several other connections at the same time
- I was kinda depressed throughout the process as I was worried I wouldn't "get there"
Strings, piano and a church organ - written in memory of a good friend .
Put the words “Creative Process” into Google and you’ll get over 95 million results – maybe I should read a few but I’m inherently suspicious of patented 4 step systems, 5 stage cycles or 8 discrete states of consciousness.
Creativity is the Holy Grail for composers – at least it is for me. The idea that by the time I have finished, there will be something that hasn’t existed in that form before is both thrilling and terrifying. If I think too much about it I get paralyzed – for me it’s kind of like the late Douglas Adams’ approach to Flying.
So, I sit at the piano, often with a metronome keeping time in the background and I play; I play anything that comes to mind, whatever my fingers want to come up with, doesn’t matter if I’ve played it before or if it belongs to someone else – I just play – and then – I start to think about something.
Cassie was Charlotte’s companion and I wrote this for her after Cassie had passed away. Charlotte has far better words than I do – you can read about Cassie here.