What Can Choral Music Be?—Understanding, Harnessing, and Annihilating ClichéAvoiding cliché can often be a self-defeating objective. Understanding the Semiotics of cliché, however, can prove extremely powerful.Feb 14, 2020Feb 14, 2020
What Can Choral Music Be?—Text Setting as Derivative WorkBy creating works that are essentially decorations of other artists’ texts, do we give up too much artistic freedom?Jan 31, 2020Jan 31, 2020
What Can Choral Music Be? — Problems With Text SettingThe act of text setting is a ubiquitous part of the choral compositional process, but does it present æsthetic problems?Jan 28, 2020Jan 28, 2020
What Can Choral Music Be?—Defining & Defeating DefaultsWhat “default settings” do we use in our music, and how can we be sure we’re making deliberate artistic choices?Jan 23, 2020Jan 23, 2020
What Can Choral Music Be? — The Product-Process DualityDo “default settings” in the creative process affect the structure of the final work? Are product and process the same thing?Jan 19, 2020Jan 19, 2020
What Can Choral Music Be? — Stop Writing Choral MusicDo you wanna know the secret to writing good choral music? Stop writing Choral Music.Jan 9, 2020Jan 9, 2020