Just what exactly are "composerly thoughts"?

11/01/21 • 15 min

The premiere episode of Composerly Thoughts, which reveals where the whole notion of "composerly thoughts" came from. Other pit stops along the way include second guessing, locked doors, a re-discovered post-it-note, and some wise nuggets from Libby Larsen and Steven Stucky.
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Composerly Thoughts - Just what exactly are "composerly thoughts"?

Transcript

Hello, I’m Elizabeth Alexander, and you’re listening to Composerly Thoughts. Here I explore the unconventional imaginings that lead us to do, say and make stuff that never before existed.
As a composer I tend to view these imaginings through the lens of music-making, but that just happens to be my lens. What I’m interested in looking at through that lens is every conceivable type of brainstorm – as well as brain-tsunamis, brain-flurries, brain-sinkholes and the faint breeze