Work in progress: Carrion Comfort 5 – at last an ending!
The latest installment on the development of Carrion Comfort – now it has an ending! Listen to the latest version of this work in progress.
Work in progress: Carrion Comfort 4
Going back to the source & ending up in unexpected places When we left Carrion Comfort last time, it had been through the wringer a bit. All the chopping and changing I did improved it, but it was left a little directionless and I felt the new end section (which sounds a bit like an [...]
Work in progress: Carrion Comfort 3
What do you do when a piece in progress spins out of control? How do you fix it? The latest update on Caitlin’s work-in-progress orchestral piece, Carrion Comfort, addresses just this problem and shows how even solutions that sound good can be wrong for the current piece.
Work in progress: A failed experiment
Failure has a place in every creator’s toolbox, so perhaps exploring the path to failure is as important as the path to success. Today I failed to complete a piece for a one-day composition competition. Rather than shy away from blogging the process, I look at the process of getting to the point of accepting failure and why the ideas I ended up with didn’t work.
Blades of grass: Arvo Pärt, Joan Miró and musical detail
Arvo Pärt says ‘A blade of grass has the status of a flower’; Joan Miró says ‘A blade of grass is as enchanting as a mountain’. It’s extraordinary the amount of meaning a single interval or line can hold in a piece of music or work of art and the example of these two artists opens the way to a different approach in which every element, no matter how small, is of prime importance.
Work in progress: Carrion comfort 2
Continuing my series of Work in Progress posts, I look at the second phase of the development of my work in progress for chamber orchestra, Carrion Comfort. This post looks at the next step after the initial ideas had been set down, developing the material, introducing some new instrumental techniques and taking a big step as regards the overall structure of the piece.
Work in progress: Carrion Comfort 1
Baring the very beginning of the process of writing my current work-in-progress, Carrion Comfort for chamber orchestra, to the world – how does a new orchestral piece get started?