Post-Post Composing!
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I had this cactus once, which was given to me as a gift. The idea was, I wouldn't kill it. Unfortunately, I did. And, if I don't post something soon, my blog will also die.
So anyway, I thought I'd post something that I'm stealing from Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, who posted this yesterday.
Composers’ Rules for the Post-Postmodern Era
Ten Rules about You
1. Show no passion or deep emotions; even better, be inarticulate or make ironic pop references.
2. Do not discuss or even hold great ideas, except to quote from others (online, use many links).
3. Be sure to collaborate—unless you are an iconoclast, which gets better (if less frequent) press.
4. Focus; do not acquire broad non-musical skills, which will brand you a dilettante.
5. Hold fast to a compositional ‘school’ and stylistic network, but deny it thoroughly.
6. Utterly reject modernism, and deny that it ever held fascination; in fact, rewrite history and re-interpret past composers’ intentions.
7. Hold a guitar; there’s nothing better to show yo…
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