I may also have written on this on earlier versions of my website:
2006 – 2011 (link coming soon!)- did not have a blog!
2012 – 2013 (link coming soon!)2014 – 2019
topic: music
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
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2020
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May
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04
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 1 — JOURNAL
Sharing my work as it happens for this composition.
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05
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 2 — JOURNAL
I wrote some good harmonic lines! I started learning a new notation software program!
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06
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14:28 ❈ — NOTES
Status: just emailed my old composition professor at OU asking for recommendations on orchestration books. ♬ The one class I really wish I’d taken while studying composition.
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 3 — JOURNAL
The first draft of the first section is complete!
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07
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 4 (Part 1) — JOURNAL
I have a version of this piece I could publish! Now to get the rest of it done…
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 4 (Part 2) — JOURNAL
Reworking rhythms to make the next section of this piece connect more clearly to the first.
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08
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 5 — JOURNAL
Fighting a horrible mood by making progress anyway. Not much. But enough.
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21:20 ❈ — NOTES
Dear readers (and listeners-to-music!): I thought I had nothing to share from today’s composing… but I was wrong! I made some progress! If you saw the Day 5 post when it went up, pop back over and give the update a look’n’listen.
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10
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24
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 6 — JOURNAL
A surprising amount of progress over the weekend — the muscles are coming back!
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28
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 7 — JOURNAL
Memorial Day and Thursday night progress…
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30
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Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 8 — JOURNAL
SpaceX launched today, and I am launching the rough draft of “Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight” to honor it!
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Jun
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28
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15:59 ❈ — NOTES
In semi-related news: my fingers are remembering how to play somewhat more complex things on the piano again, and it’s been really, really good for my soul.
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Jul
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Aug
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21
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09:20 ❈ — NOTES
I’m ridiculously excited to sit down and listen to the whole of Christopher Tin’s newly-released To Shiver the Sky — an album I backed on Kickstarter back in early 2018. Worth the wait? YES.
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