Yours portly had a pretty quite weekend before the resumption of the school year—classes started this past Monday—and while I keep feeling like I didn’t do anything, I was actually fairly productive in a number of small ways.
One of those was in regards to my composing. While I didn’t write much new material—I was mostly editing some pieces I’d written last week—I did list several new (and old) pieces for sale via Noteflight.
When I compose for an album, I like to have some kind of organizing theme. For example, Heptadic Structure is built upon the “gimmick” of writing every piece in 7/X time (7/4, 7/8, 7/16, etc.), in which each measure of music consists of seven beats. White Boy Summer attempted to capture the moods of summer, especially the chill, relaxed vibe of the season.
Sometimes, though, I’m just jotting things down for my own amusement and seeing where my scribblings take me. I don’t have perfect pitch, and while I know roughly what intervals sound like, when I write by hand away from a piano or my notation software, I can sometimes get very unusual results. My instrumental music often has an angular, geometric quality to it because I’m composing in a theoretical vacuum, as it were.
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