Music is Hard 2: Influences
This week: Influences. What influences our music? How do we learn from what we listen to? How do we apply our learning to the music we make? download
View ArticleMusic is Hard 36: Conferences (part two)
This week: This week, we recorded the show right before Tim heads to far-off Tempe, Arizona for the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference to premiere a new work by Dave. What’s the...
View ArticleMusic is Hard 37: Premieres
This week: Just last week, Tim premiered a new work by Dave. How do composers and performers see the process of premiering a work differently? How is giving the first performance of a new work...
View ArticleMusic is Hard 38: Scale
This week: Tim provides anecdotal evidence of composers writing an increasing number of short works. Is this a trend that should concern us? What is the importance of scale to our perception of new...
View ArticleMusic is Hard 53: Tools
This week: This week, Avid made some startling announcements about Sibelius, one of the most popular software tools for composers. This got us thinking our relationships with our tools? What would we...
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