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I use several methods depending of the type of music I'm creating... For piano/organ pieces I play and play in piano looking for good material but not just random notes, I play somekind of improvisation using the material I already know is good, or I know how it sound, like chords progessions, motifs, some of those are inspired on music I've listened (other composer's works) in other words, based on what I have learned. for orchestra I write directly on Sibelius, I write a line in some instrument (based on what I heard on my mind or what I discovered on the piano) then I play it, listen it, and write on another instrument what I heard on my mind while listening the Sib playback, then I play again the two lines/motifs and I heard more things in my head, I add them and so and so, like creating layers of lines/motifs in instruments/sections ... then I construct the following parts of those lines/motifs, .... after creating a significative part, I play it all from the begining and I edit/add/delete things according with the result I just heard..... rarely I listen all in my head and I open the Sibelius to write it all, already designed or created. for Electronic pieces is about the same, I just switch my way of handnlig harmony/melody/beat using the other elements I know from the Dance/Pop/Trance/Rock music I've heard, the song I know/like but I also add things after listining the playback results. Rarely I just add random stuff for creating "Experimental" music. so, basically the "quick results listening" is very important for the ñast two methods, ... if I wouldn't have the way to listen what I write (as in my old composing days) my orchestration would be easier and simpler, wrinting only what I'm sure of how does it sounds...

Do you honestly think Wagner and Mahler KNEW what they were getting into when they propelled the romantic? Do you honestly think Stravinsky and Schoenberg KNEW what they were creating when they propelled the modern? Do you honestly think Cage, Carter, Adams, and Reich honestly KNEW what they were doing when they propelled the post-modern? It was the historians that called Beethoven "The first romantic" and historians that called Duke the "most influential" of the jazz artists of the 20th century. They didn't know it in the act of composing what influence they would have. Music always lags behind or is way ahead of its time, it is never in line with history exactly. Thus, to predict where we're going is impractical. We can hardly agree were we've been and where we are let alone where we're going. Just write. Let the musicologists figure out the macromusical picture.

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