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Today I sat down with a piece of lined paper and drew dots on it which translate into music, for the first time in ages. It's going to be an instrumental introduction to one of my new songs (Girl without a Past), and it's easily the most interesting/complicated thing I've written since my year studying classical composition.
(I got an A- for that course, but decided against taking it further on the grounds that the only people who listen to "contemporary art music" are other contemporary art musicians. Unless, like, the composer is a drag queen or something. The most fun thing I did in that course was setting the copyright warning from a video tape to music, I kid you not.)
Anyway, the new piece is in the whole-note scale starting on F and is in a time signature that varies between 3 and 5.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darthsappho seems to like it, and she's not a music geek, so it must be at least vaguely listenable. It at least seems to fit the song itself, which is reasonably conventional pop music. I hope the rest of you like it, when it's performed, recorded and published.
(I got an A- for that course, but decided against taking it further on the grounds that the only people who listen to "contemporary art music" are other contemporary art musicians. Unless, like, the composer is a drag queen or something. The most fun thing I did in that course was setting the copyright warning from a video tape to music, I kid you not.)
Anyway, the new piece is in the whole-note scale starting on F and is in a time signature that varies between 3 and 5.
darthsappho seems to like it, and she's not a music geek, so it must be at least vaguely listenable. It at least seems to fit the song itself, which is reasonably conventional pop music. I hope the rest of you like it, when it's performed, recorded and published.