Ever so pleased with myself. I logged on tonight to check my email and found a message from spnm saying that on Sunday evening they’re holding an online composition workshop and anyone who’s interested in getting some feedback should send along scores/sound files pronto. So I did. I didn’t procrastinate, I didn’t use any one of the thousand avoidance tactics I have been cultivating over the past decade. I went straight to my composition folder, checked over my materials, made a few minor tweaks, and sent everything off within the hour, so hopefully I’ll get some really constructive criticism on my harp piece (en)twine at the end of the week!

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I was reading Steve Reich’s reaction to Wavelength by Michael Snow and was completely taken by the poetry and stream-of-consciousness of the writing. It would make an awesome tape piece, a reading of that text, cut up and elaborated in Pro Tools. Might keep this in mind as a holiday project for Christmas-time, once I’m done with the carol for Cat.

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Worked my way through the rest of the Introduction, the section on early works and Music as a Gradual Process, and what struck me especially was how much certain of Reich’s statements from the 60s/70s about his music have resonance with what Joshua Davis is doing with online/visual art today. For example,

I compose the material, decide the process it’s going to be run through – but once those intial choices have been made, it runs by itself. Steve Reich ‘Excerpts from an interview in art forum’

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