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This blog documents the creative processes of composers Craig Biondi, Alphonse Izzo and Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn as they compose new works for a concert funded in part through Meet The Composer's Met Life Creative Connections Program in association with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Izzo: Disturbing The Surface

Hmmm.. I worry about the "tone" of a bit of music that I've been working on this week. Well, that's not entirely true. I'm self conscious because it's a little too sweet and simple, yet it also has some features that resonate with me.

The truth is that this snippet of music represents the "problem" that I'd like to explore in this piece. How do I transform a naive sound world into something deeper? This is what makes Cornell's (see first post) art tick; the tension between sentimentality and more disturbing/provocative sub layers.

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