Sorry for getting so personal even though I don't know anyone who is going to read this! I think this piece is my way of expressing watching my baby grow up faster than I think I'm ready for - there are lots of experiences we're not ready for but happen. It's an incredible experience watching a new person experience the world. I think it's why the movies Up and Inside Out are so powerful despite being disguised as kids' movies. I think one of the challenges of this piece is going to be keeping a sense of beauty while at the same time learning how to musically express discovery and an evolving experiential being. Also, I don't have a text so that will just have to come later as the words seem right, but I know I want a voice in there somewhere.
Musically, it's looking like diatonicism is functioning as a beginning state and each level of harmonic modulation and discovery adds new dimension to the experience: the F# being lifted out of the initial F harmonic area, moving the harmony to G, G# and C# suggesting and arriving in an A territory, but with Bb reflecting on F, and so on.
Notes so I know where to continue from next time I sit down to write:
*each part becomes active then examines harmonies and newness
*relationship between beautiful and painful developments
*some sections moved to before being fully prepared, some fully aware
Musically, it's looking like diatonicism is functioning as a beginning state and each level of harmonic modulation and discovery adds new dimension to the experience: the F# being lifted out of the initial F harmonic area, moving the harmony to G, G# and C# suggesting and arriving in an A territory, but with Bb reflecting on F, and so on.
Notes so I know where to continue from next time I sit down to write:
*each part becomes active then examines harmonies and newness
*relationship between beautiful and painful developments
*some sections moved to before being fully prepared, some fully aware
I love the starting point, both intellectual and musical. The passage of time is shocking... and to see it before your eyes must be astonishing! Thanks for sharing
ReplyDelete+1 for what Andrew said. I'm looking forward to seeing/hearing specifically how those ideas in your dot points notes pan out as you develop this work.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, honest and painful sentiment... this kind of art is the best kind. Really looking forward to hearing how this develops.
ReplyDeleteAndrew/Hakushu/Alice: me too! definitely experiencing the blank page fear on this one. although, i feel like more expressive progress has been made than music notation progress, but in a strange way, writing the abstract Contraflunctus flute trio seems to be fueling the impetus behind this piece. Def need to live with it for a little while longer and let the musical ideas form.
ReplyDeletefor the text, i started writing anti-poetry every day as a joke last year just for funzos and depending on what was happening every day, a few naturally expressive/cathartic moments happened. i think i'm going to start there for the text.