2026-10-19 13:27 UTC
From a text with a friend, concerning my compositional process (I am 25% through an 8-movement choral piece):
“I am constitutionally unable to leave consonance behind. Dissonance is the bitter hops to consonance’s malty goodness — used as a foil rather than the main feature.”
/cc @mcmullin
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@mcmullin@musicians.today 2026-10-19 13:59
@ossobuffo@triangletoot.party I would second that. But to go with the same metaphor, although I taste the bitter hops as a foil to the malty goodness, most people tasting the same brew find the bitterness overwhelming, and that’s all they notice. It’s an acquired taste, I guess.