Here are the next Three Pieces from this challenge for your enjoyment. Please feel free to comment if the inspiration strikes you.
Composed 7/4/2019 Today, I started with an uncommon interval to start with- a Major 7th. This is what became of it.
Composed 7/5/2019 I reached Level 2! Woo Hoo! This was the Name game. I took my full name, only took the letters that were in the musical alphabet, and created a bass line Motive that the piece builds around. While composing I thought in layers, before putting this into the computer. There are several types of bells used for the accompaniment and Crystal Glass for the melody. It could probably be used around a shrine, oracle dwelling, or religious site in a game.
Composed 7/6/2019 I wrote a very short, loopable blues tune. It is 7 bars long because I like messing with form sometimes.
Every once in awhile, it is good to get out and try something new. In this case, it’s a challenge.
This summer, I am trying the 21 days of VGM Challenge in order to get back in the habit of writing every day.
As posting takes some time and realistically, I do not have time to write a blog post every single day this month ( July tends to be a heavy performance month) AND finish my writing goal, I can and WILL make time to write something for this challenge every day. That being said, you can expect a post about once every 3 or so days with new pieces attached from now until the end of the challenge.
Additionally, The Challenge officially started July 1st. I have been writing by hand every day in keeping with the challenge’s intent to compose every day. However, realistically , I do not have enough time to input my ideas into the computer as well most days, except for the weekend so today (Sunday) is the first day I have audio available. Just to prove that I have not been cheating though, here is a selfie with my notebook.
I did the Thing!
If you want to know what this is about (and possibly join now or in the future) please follow the link for more information, but in short, I will be following writing prompts that are sent to my inbox in order to write these pieces.
Here are the First 3:
Composed 7/1/2019 Today, I just came up with an 8 bar Melodic Idea
Composed 7/2/2019 For Day 2, I took the Write Something in Minor Prompt and expanded on yesterday’s Melodic Idea
Composed 7/3/2019 Day 3’s chosen prompt was Compose in a Compound meter. I chose 5/8 but did a time displacement in the baseline as well. It is what I would envision would play while talking to a giant owl or Fantasy creature (Griffin, Chimera, etc) in a game.
Enjoy!
P.S. Speaking of trying new things , here is a picture of me Jamming, on stage, in front of strangers, and with people that I mostly don’t know for the first time ever. It was fun, just like I hope this challenge will be.
Me with the Rogue Jammers, June 29th, 2019 Photo credit Robyn Barziza Chargo
