Aphorisms for Composers – May to July 2016

July 4, 2016

Notation software monetizes and commercializes the personal act of writing music; pencil/pen and paper technology do not compromise the writing for me.

June 26, 2016

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

  • T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets: East Coker, 1940

May 3, 2016

Just because you are not careerist or suitably prizewinning, don’t assume that your work is somehow inadequate. Keep doing your thing, hearing and committing to your sounds (could be talking to myself or to any number of others).