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Post by keff on Feb 22, 2024 21:24:44 GMT
Not come across Dorico before but from a quick browse of the website it looks to be a very nice and useful tool. Thanks for pointing out this product.
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Post by corenfa on Feb 22, 2024 21:53:01 GMT
Not come across Dorico before but from a quick browse of the website it looks to be a very nice and useful tool. Thanks for pointing out this product. Composer friend, when I asked him what I should use and what he used, recommended it. He uses a pencil as he said he is too old to learn new stuff (which I disbelieve) but he was recommended it by younger colleagues. |
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Post by Zi on Feb 23, 2024 10:28:05 GMT
I quite like pencils. I used to write poetry that way. It allows crossing out and removal but you have version control which I like when I'm writing. On the wp you have to be disciplined over version control which eventually I learned to do so can now use either. I think I prefer the wp as it doesn't destroy trees.
I'm glad the composing is coming along and that it's pleasing you and making you happy!
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Post by corenfa on Feb 23, 2024 17:13:42 GMT
I quite like pencils. I used to write poetry that way. It allows crossing out and removal but you have version control which I like when I'm writing. On the wp you have to be disciplined over version control which eventually I learned to do so can now use either. I think I prefer the wp as it doesn't destroy trees. I'm glad the composing is coming along and that it's pleasing you and making you happy! I also use pencils. But if I want to use a pencil I need a piano as well. I am currently somewhere without a piano so all I have is Dorico with an on screen keyboard |
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Post by largissimo on Feb 24, 2024 0:17:08 GMT
I've been doing February Album Writing Month. It's resulted in a handful of songs, and a lot of absolutely tiny piano pieces. They all have lots of repeats, but still clock in at well under 3 minutes each - a couple barely clear the minute mark.
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Post by Zi on Feb 24, 2024 9:39:33 GMT
February Album Writing Month What's that? It sounds interesting. |
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Post by corenfa on Feb 24, 2024 10:39:15 GMT
Today I learnt that if I have the iPad and headphones, I can compose even in a French shopping centre at lunchtime
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Post by largissimo on Feb 24, 2024 17:41:37 GMT
February Album Writing Month What's that? It sounds interesting. It's the music equivalent of National Novel Writing Month - you have a month to write 14 songs / tracks / pieces /whatever. It's a lot of fun, though I never get much sleep during it! write.fawm.org |
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Post by Zi on Feb 25, 2024 17:28:30 GMT
It sounds like quite a lot to write in a month! I can imagine the sleeplessness issue. A minute doesn't sound very long but I bet when you're writing music, it can be an eternity.
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Post by corenfa on Mar 9, 2024 8:10:10 GMT
Have now transcribed three things. The process of working with a composer is fascinating, I get to see how the pieces are constructed by entering each note, and I can ask him for clarifications in real time when I try to play the results. Also I get all of the background behind why things are written the way they are.
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Post by Zi on Mar 10, 2024 11:49:36 GMT
The process of working with a composer is fascinating Does he work in a different way from you, corenfa? |
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Post by corenfa on Mar 10, 2024 19:01:47 GMT
The process of working with a composer is fascinating Does he work in a different way from you, corenfa? He does, in multiple ways- 1. He does it in pencil on manuscript paper, where I do it either directly in Dorico, or with a stylus on a tablet on a PDF of blank manuscript. 2. He works a lot by improvising and will then build a piece on top of an improvised idea. I start from a melody, and build around that. But the thing I find completely magical, whether it is mine or his composition, is that we have turned some abstract ideas in someone's head, into actual concrete sounds. I will never cease to be awed by this process. |
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Post by Zi on Mar 11, 2024 9:32:44 GMT
Has it made you change or adapt you way of composing at all?
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Post by corenfa on Mar 11, 2024 17:58:35 GMT
Has it made you change or adapt you way of composing at all? No, because everyone's process is different. However I am currently only 2 pieces into a set of 24 (that he will eventually produce) so when I have learnt them all, maybe I will say something different. |
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Post by corenfa on Mar 16, 2024 11:26:41 GMT
We have evolved an interesting process. He sends me handwritten manuscript which I transcribe, and he then annotates or changes notes. The first piece we worked on has a bit of a fractal structure; it repeats three times but in a different key each time. He wrote out the first iteration, which I then notated and got the computer to transpose down twice. After receipt of that copy, he changed some of the harmony for the other two iterations. He also asked for impressions, and upon receiving those, changed some more things. So somehow I have become part of the compositional process.
Forming those impressions was interesting. There was one change he made in the second stage, where I told him, I do not know why but the original version (had a D natural instead of a D sharp somewhere) just sounds better and I cannot give you any rational reason for this. And that the last bar sounds like Bach, whether you want that or not I do not know, but it does. And he replied saying he agreed with both. So I am fascinated by how two people 10000km apart who communicate only through email and instant message, can come to the same conclusions. Furthermore the composer is currently missing the full use of one hand, and does not have a real piano at the moment, only a keyboard with some keys that stick.
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