Saturday
July 26th 2014. Only two more days left of being 25, so sad. Yep, I have already
come to the age when it’s not anymore fun to grow older, all “youth reductions”
(on trains and airplanes) end on Monday, so sad.
My room at ISAM 2014. Photo © Cecilia Damström |
The view from my window at ISAM 2014. In the garden you see on this pic they grow the sallad we ate every day! Photo © Cecilia Damström |
Had
breakfast with Evan Pensis, Sam Kinsey and Geoffrey Conquer and later also Spencer Lyons and Andrey Stolyarov joined
our table. At 9.15 all composer met up and we went to Ofers work room, the same
room I have been composing in for the past days. There all student’s presented
them selves and some work they had done. The session lasted until 12.45 and
then we headed of for lunch, all very hungry by this time.
After lunch
I went back to Ofer’s room (which was free) and composed until coffee time at
14.30. After coffee I practised a bit piano and composed until lunch, at 18.00
and managed to get the first movement ready of my “Dorfmann trio”. All
composers are encouraged to participate in a internal ISAM composition
competition. This year the instruments you can chose from (using 1-4
instruments in total) are saxophone, piano, contra bass and percussion. More
over we have been given the cryptogram of musicologist and ISAM founder Joseph
Dorfman for inspiration, which is a note transcription of his name: C (do), D
(re), F, E (mi), A. I am writing for saxophone, contrabass and percussion
(marimba and bass drum). I am going to write a three movement piece, and I
actually managed more or less to finish the first movement before dinner, 2,30
minutes! Not completely happy with it yet but I can get back to it later.
After
dinner I didn’t manage to get anything done. I was planning on going to the pub, but finally decided not to go
because I was too tired and instead I went to bed early (at 23 o’clock).
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