Electronic Music Composition: Day 2

Today we began class in the “listening nook.” Betsey played several different electronic music pieces for us. We discussed the strategies composers used to create these works as a way to start thinking about creating our own new work. We talked about how pieces made us feel and why, and focused in on strategies like harmony, repetition, imperfect looping, tempo, rhythm, motifs, hooks, layering, etc.

Then we moved over to the computers. We reviewed what we learned last week and experimented with some of these strategies.