Intuition improves itself by learning.
This is my most beloved pedagogical principle.
I must constantly disabuse my composition students of the notion that "composing systematically" and "composing by ear" are entirely different activities, as though "The Ear" were totally disconnected from "The Mind" (of course, the ear is the more romantic homunculus in this scenario).
I say, the best time to look for constraints on your freedom is when you feel the most intuitively "free..." it's possible someone else is doing the thinking for you (see ProTools), and the constraints that are there are really the ones that are your own and haven't inspected yet. This is something that learning addresses.
Matt
--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Matt Barber brbrofsvl@gmail.com wrote:
From: Matt Barber brbrofsvl@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended To: pd-list@iem.at Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 5:38 AM
Intuition improves itself by learning.
This is my most beloved pedagogical principle.
I must constantly disabuse my composition students of the notion that "composing systematically" and "composing by ear" are entirely different activities, as though "The Ear" were totally disconnected from "The Mind" (of course, the ear is the more romantic homunculus in this scenario).
I've never actually heard the phrase "composing by ear." I have heard composers from a certain generation describe their process as "intuitive," but I've always taken that as code for, "I'm a decent human being, and, unlike some, I won't take the tiny bit of power entrusted to me by this lecture to blather on shamelessly like a used-car salesman in some awful alternate universe where the customer leaves the lot not with a car, but with the memory of a dry, uninspired post-serialist compositional process."
But if you press the "intuitive" composer for some details, I've found they'll usually give them. And in a clear and concise manner, which is always a bonus.
-Jonathan
I say, the best time to look for constraints on your freedom is when you feel the most intuitively "free..." it's possible someone else is doing the thinking for you (see ProTools), and the constraints that are there are really the ones that are your own and haven't inspected yet. This is something that learning addresses.
Matt
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