Omar Thomas reflects on the process he took in making his latest Big Band album talking logistics, advice, and the process itself.
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John Hollenbeck: Composing a Better World
John Hollenbeck explores how the decisions during the composition process change the composer themselves and why that is important today.
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Greg Ward: Growth Through Collaboration
Greg Ward discusses various project that grew out of collaboration with other disciplines, the process, the impact, and how it continues to impact him.
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Bruno Råberg: Composing for a Ten-Piece Band – tone sets, counterpoint, motivic development, form and more
Bruno Råberg talks about translating tone sets, how he orchestrated for a 10-tet, and balance in composing with tone sets through his analysis of “Erebus.”
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Sarah Jerrom: Writing For 4 Voices – The Magpie Suite
Sarah Jerrom analyzes her work talking about instrumentation, orchestration, lyric writing, and the process of combining 17 instruments with 4 voices.
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Ryan Truesdell: Creative growth through self-imposed challenges
Ryan Truesdell reflects on some words from Jim McNeely, his current project, and advice for composers – should you write for big band?
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An Interview with Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer talks about interweaving of performance and composing, the impact of collaborators, and touches on grief’s impact while composing in this interview.
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Patrick Cornelius: Writing My Way Out of a Small-Group Rut by Thinking Big
Writing the same song over and over – the problem and an approach to working through it…Patrick Cornelius discusses this in his own small group music.
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Ed Palermo: Trial and Error. Arranging Music The Hard Way
Ed Palermo reflects on his path in the practice of arranging through Zappa, the Beatles, Coltrane, and others developing his taste and preferences around his peers.
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Michael Cain: Will music composition exist in the era of the content creator?
Pianist, Keyboardist, and Composer Michael Cain offers some thoughtful questions and discussions around the changing landscape of composition.
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Angel Bat Dawid: The Tyrannical Perpetual Perversion of Blk Music
Angel Bat Dawid muses through the deep-rooted compositions of the BLK diasporic consciousness, unraveling the rich history of “Great Black Music.”
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Frank Carlberg: Some Harmonic Strategies In (Jazz) Composition
Frank Carlberg discusses techniques he uses to open up harmonic possibilities for new works with a particular focus on triads, tetrachods, and other harmonic devices.
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Anthony Branker: Finding the Inspiration to Compose
Anthony Branker discusses some approaches to composition when you’re looking for inspiration including how Copland’s approach, physicality, theory, and the world around us.
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