An excerpt from my latest video essay on musical composition… by way of talking about composition in photography, and teaching people to appreciate street photography!

(Full video linked in thread)

#music #composing #photography

This month in my music newsletter: a discussion of “fittingness” when adapting other art to #music – including a chance to hear me singing to illustrate one of the most common failings of text setting I hear in church music. 🎤 😂 But also: Camille Pépin, Ephraim Radner, and an update on my #symphony!

I wrote in my end-of-September newsletter this week about the “two chasms” that artists like playwrights and composers have to cross—one chasm shared by all artists, and one… not.

If you’d like to hear it actually *sung*—you know, kind of important!—this is my wife singing and me playing during a practice session at church last year.

The main bits of interest:

1. There is now an SATB arrangement (which I quite like!)—I actually wrote it last February, but failed to share it. Whoops! There's a mockup attached.

2. Based on feedback from our choir, I tweaked how the meter is presented at the start. It’s “weirder”—but easier!