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This short snippet sounds extraordinarily well produced! I don't know how you compose or what kind of process you go through but for me listening to my composition while I'm composing is a killer of creativity. I get excited about how good what I already wrote sounds and then I get intimidated by that when trying to continue my composition. I don't know if this is what is happening to you. You say you have trouble coming up with "decent sounding ideas". A solution to that from my perspective is to divorce yourself from the sound and compose in a venue where you don't hear everything you write immediately. This might (as it does for me) let your musical imagination run free and unencumbered. I hope that helps!

This is a really interesting and unusual score. I discovered that that first cue is largely made up of differing forms of octatonic sets which modulate to the two differing transpositional sets. He also mixes different scale forms (see Bartok violin sonata 1 and 2). It’s not atonal in this sense but rather 12 tone which is not quite the same thing and falls under the term Polymodal Chromaticism. This means combining different scale forms and the modes that can be drawn from them. JW’s chromatic technique is not unique and I think lends itself more to Bartok’s use of pitch organisation then any strict serial approaches. The Dies Irae pattern recurs in a number of JW’s scores of course as does other familiar chromatic patterns. Some of the melodic directions or motifs are repeated and developed (changed) as you’d expect…