Composers Forum is a daily web log that allows invited contemporary composers to share their thoughts and ideas on any topic that interests them--from the ethereal, like how new music gets created, music history, theory, performance, other composers, alive or dead, to the mundane, like getting works played and recorded and the joys of teaching. If you're a professional composer and would like to participate, send us an e-mail.
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Some of my music works better in live performance. Some of it works better on recording. I don’t just mean in the obvious ways – visual stimulation, acoustical clarity, multimedia, performer interpretation, etc. There are just some pieces that sound better when I am in the room with the performers, and some pieces that sound better when I am in the room with the speakers. I don’t feel one type of music is inherently superior to the other, but I’m always careful not to confuse the two.
Does your music lean one way or the other? Do you have pieces that sound best on a pair of headphones? In a roomful of jostling spectators? Indoors, outdoors? Does it make absolutely no difference to you?
posted by Lawrence Dillon
11:07 AM