(Vacational) Music Composition Lesson

Think of music not in symbolic terms, nor as syntax and grammar. Think of music in physical terms, as energy and matter.

Think of form not as a succession of sound events, but rather as a fontal happening with a shape made out of texture, transparency/opacity, density, weight and movement.

Think of content not as a reflection of experience but as experience itself.

Think of change not as the actions done by time nor as transfer from some-thing to another thing. Think of change as transition, as continuation-modification. Think of time as life itself. 

Think with your heart, your senses and your mind.

Musical material

If we assume that our perception of the world is conditioned by primal psychological images—Jung's collective archetypes—we can infer that the perception of sound events can have a close relation with the inner world of the listener. Physical reality—exterior facts—are processed on a subjective way according to personal psychological constitution and experience, providing a conscious or unconscious reference point through which our interpretations and formulations—artistic, scientific, philosophical, or religious—are made.

The creative musical process, for instance, based on the physical realisation of the energies and impulses of the inner world through a particular arrangement of dynamic sound elements, carries a potential that can stimulate the constitutive complexes of the psyche, an area where imagination and emotions lie.