It’s been a busy couple of weeks, but I wanted to take a moment to share all the excitement with you! ^_^ Firstly, if you recall my last post detailing my processes of writing “The Oracle,” I’m very proud to announce…
“The Oracle” – An Experiment in Aleatorism & Formula
I’m in the middle of composing a real neat piece right now for a July 1 deadline… I’m calling it “The Oracle,” and it’s for flute/piccolo, Bb clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.
What I’ve done is set up a complex set of “rules” that guide my writing based on the random drawing of tarot cards… But it’s turned out to be both an aleatoric and a highly flexible process that leaves me with a lot of artistic possibilities, though I’m being guided in the overall structure by the cards I draw and their placement in the spread I’ve chosen.
As you might imagine, knowing me, I’m having a ton of fun with this. There’s something thrilling about the mixture of using both a pre-compositional process that prevents me from fully anticipating the outcome of a work combined with that process allowing for a vast amount of contextual freedom!
Enjoy a sample of the work at the end of this post…