COMPOSING AT NIGHT

 

 

 

Composing and recording at night. When everything is dark and silent. Except my keyboard, my monitor and the music in my headphones or through my Triangle loudspeakers...

 

I love to start a recording session, without any fixed plan. I let the ideas, the music flow through my fingers on my keyboard. 

 

There is magic sometimes. There was magic this evening.

 

A strange soundscape, abstract and organic. And very slow.

 

Tomorrow will start the editing process: deleting, deleting, deleting patterns.

 

Creating silence.

 

I love this step of fine tuning, the sound and the silence.

 

We play always too much notes (as someone told Mozart.. But I am not Mozart, and of course there are not too many notes in Mozart's music).

 

I try to understand my process of musical composition. I cannot explain... There is a stream of inspiration, of ideas, of intuitions. I guess the unconscious plays the main part here.

 

Then comes the step of editing, of conscious decisions, of choices.

 

And later comes the step of sharing the music through a release.

 

When I feel I cannot change or edit anymore, but that I like the track, it goes as close as possible to the idea I had while creating it...