Composer Advice @composeradvice

This is a twitter feed providing advice for composers of experimental music. Joined May 2016

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

6 years ago

It's amazing when you watch some improv and realize that there are twice the amount of ears on stage as there are players but there is no way you could tell that from listening.

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6 years ago

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

Contemporary music is a field filled with so many intelligent people... all of whom seem incapable of thinking intelligently about music.

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

For most musicians “excellent acoustics” is just a synonym for “something that sounds different to when I play the same thing in the rooms in my house”.

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

Beware commercial interests. (Images from youtube.com/watch?v=vpUx9D…)

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

If you are a composer and you don't agree with a particular tweet I have posted, remember that the world would be greatly improved by you reading every one of my tweets with the prefix "Your music is shit because..."

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

Just because you have conservative-sounding opinions does not mean you have conservative solutions to problems. I don't want a return to the music of the past, I want to raze the entire shitshow of Contemporary Music and start again.

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

Listening to a piece full of new sounds is often like watching someone showing you their holiday photos - presenting all the interesting places they discovered on their travels - and attendant with all the self-absorption, formlessness and tedium that this normally entails.

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

Too many composers avoid tackling the hard problem of music "how do I create syntactic relationships between sounds to create a meaning that arises out of sound itself" in favour of easy the off-the-shelf answers by importing meaning generators from other disciplines.

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

Music isn't about sound in the same way that novels aren't about phonemes and soccer isn't about gravity.

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

Book reviews don't praise novels for "inventing a lot of new words", so why should I be impressed with your newest extended-technique-athon?

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Composer Advice @composeradvice

7 years ago

Realize that it is not that you are too stupid to understand the typesetting software lilypond, but that its syntax is not consistent or logical and that someone needs to build a simplified css-style parsing language for the layout settings.