On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 08:47 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings, > > Reading an interview with Philippe Leroux in the Computer Music Journal, > when asked about spending 20 months on a 20-minute piece he replied : > > "I try to spend as much time as I can with each piece before letting it > go into the world, so to speak. That allows me to re-read, to correct, > to refine the details, to add little things that enrich the musical > discourse in a manner that allows for as many levels of perception of > the work as possible during the process of composing. I like to have a > profound understanding of the piece; it is a daily two-way communication > that I sustain with it. That allows me to get to compositional levels > that are just not possible when you compose something fast. Then again, > having said that, in the real world, some works are written a lot faster > than that." :) In the end it's emotional ambivalence that does the fine tuning ;). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user