‘How I compose’ Series – V – James Weeks
“I try to remember that making is fundamentally as natural as breathing.”
Spotlights: How I Compose
Spotlights: How I Compose
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'How I Compose' Series - IV - Martin Butler
"It felt experimental: seeing what would happen if I subjected strongly iconic musical ideas to somewhat mechanical, ‘alien’ treatments and procedures."
'How I Compose' Series - III - Ben Gaunt
"I enjoy writing music that is about more than just one thing, and I’ve come to view a composition as the end result of a learning process"
'How I Compose' Series - II - Alex Nikiporenko
"I found it curious that I, an atheist living in the 21st century, was writing music for medieval instruments to be performed in a church."
'How I Compose' Series - I - Lee Westwood
"It is my hope to contribute, in a small way, towards painting a bigger picture of how people compose"
Lee Westwood – The ‘How I Compose’ Series – The Secret Art(s) of Composition
"In developing my own practices, and through a general interest in the lives and work of those whose music I most admire, I have frequently found myself transported by the details of another composer's writing habits"
