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Dear Guests, Welcome to my blog which I treat like a creative garden where I regularly plant and change this and that be it poetry, philosophy, an Oboe Brilliance lesson, an essay of some kind, or a journal about composing. Visit every Monday for oboe coaching which is also helpful for many melodic instrumentalists. Musically yours, Kathryn
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"How do you compose?" That is the most commonly asked question I hear.
This blog is a window into my creative process and philosophies as a composer and instrumentalist. At times it may contain music, photos, and poetry as well. May you enjoy, return, and benefit!   My Archives  September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009
A Rose for Samia
Bald Eagle Flying/trance music 14 min 39secs 2010 Electronic Sounds Sculpture Subscription poetic revisions Aeon In Memory/revised In Memory poetic process and thoughts about poetry Oboe Brilliance C Chromatic study and Oboe Brilliance 2010 SUBSCRIPTION!!!! Composer Courtesy MP3 Subscription 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 |
Dear Guests,
This piece is directly inspired/influenced by the book "When the Drummers where Women" by Layne Redmond, which I read earlier this year. After reading that book - which I highly recommend - I decided to go back to my love of composing trance music which I had put on the back burner 15 years ago. 15 years ago, I composed and performed a 20 plus minute trance piece which I performed soley by clapping my hands. The piece was "Demeter's Journey" and I wrote it out on several huge pieces of newsprint paper that I made a grid score upon. I created new symbols to represent rhythmic patterns to be performed within each small box which represented a second. It did indeed take the audience into a trance state, and much to my surprise the audience really loved it, but in my lack of experience, I failed to bring the audience back out of the trance state. Furthermore, I put it as the last piece of the performance, so my audience had to struggle to bring themselves back before driving home. A mature hippy woman and therapist was kind enough to enlighten me as to my musical responsibility towards my audience in this instance. Personally, I'm proud of this piece, "Bald Eagle Flying". It requires a good deal of musical maturity, for me at least, to create successfully. It works for me in that it creates what I call an active trance state. I love to play it while I do my exercises such as lifting arm weights, or doing repetitions of spot exercises. Sometimes I use it as sonic wallpaper while I clean up my music room or perform a chore for a specified length of time so I can do that work in a more meditative state. The beat is consistent throughout the entire piece and you can hear in the end, how I bring you the listener back out of the strance state while keeping the beat steady. I hope you enjoy the entire piece should you choose to buy it. The sample is just a segment taken somewhere in the middle of the piece. Musically yours, Kathryn |
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