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andysporring (52)in #cwh • 11 days ago
Some Thoughts Halfway Through Composing A Symphony
I'll just start with a comparison: A composition for Piano solo contains of two staves, a stringquartet contains of four staves. My symphony contains of 37(!) staves. The instrumentation of the orchestra
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andysporring (52)in #cwh • 14 days ago
I'm Letting The Artist In Me Out!
I never knew that I would be able to call myself an artist, but that's what I am also, not 'only' a composer. And that is from one who during the school years almost didn't get a grade in art! So there's
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andysporring (52)in #cwh • 15 days ago
Composing A Piano Sonata For My Wife
Last year I started by composing a Piano Sonata for my wife Miriam to give her for her birthday. Miriam is a skilled pianist and educator, she also has perfect pitch so when she's in a choir it usually
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steevc (79)in #hive • 19 days ago
Follow Friday: Out of Steam
The News I added an extra coin to my chart this week. I am sure many people know the history of Hive, but others should read some history on how it came about. The 'legacy…
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alessandrawhite (65)CWH Founder Artistic Directorin Creative Work Hour • 19 days ago
💖 Happy Frīgedæg , Hive Friends, from the Creative Work Hour crew! 💖 Live from Leeds, UK.
CWH celebrates the day of Freyja and Venus to finish the week with love, beauty, and wisdom. We wish you the same! 💖
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andysporring (52)in #cwh • 24 days ago
How To Be This Productive Composing Music?
I recently got a question (again) how it is possible to be this productive in composing music? I have since restarted my career as a composer composing more than nine hours of music. It's more than seventy
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andysporring (52)in #cwh • 25 days ago
Writing A Stringsextet Can Be Like Writing For Two String-trios
Sometimes it takes bravery to be a composer, I realize that now. But it has taken me fifty years to figure out that. The first composition, which was a Swedish folk tune called Vispolska from Ålsta, was
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andysporring (52)in #cwh • 26 days ago
Composing For An Almost Impossible Combination
Today I'm going to write a little about my composition Danza - Stanza which is composed for what's called a Pierrot Ensemble. A Pierrot Ensemble consists of a Flute a Clarinet in Bb, a Violin, a Violoncello,
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andysporring (52)in #cwh • 27 days ago
The Narrative Of A Composer
This one takes a minute, or two to digest. Not because of length but because of content. There's one obvious narrative of sorts that the composer has in his palette. And that's first hand the music, but
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andysporring (52)in #greif • 28 days ago
How I handled my grief after the schoolshooting in Örebro, Sweden
On Tuesday the 4th of February 2025, the worst schoolshooting in Swedish history took place in the middle-sized city of Örebro, Ten people were killed by a person, who after the act committed suicide.
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andysporring (52)in #restless • 10 months ago
How My Restless Soul Has Feed My Creativity
Crediting restlessness creativity personal growth, despite Parkinson's, fueled my passion to make a positive impact.
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andysporring (52)in #own • 10 months ago
Grief
Just one week ago, I was yet again reminded of life’s frailty when the news broke out all over Facebook that my dear friend Johan had died in a house fire. Johan was the one I…
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andysporring (52)in #creativeworkhour • 11 months ago
Finally I have Decided To Go On; My Farewell Article On Medium
Finally I have Decided To Go On; My Farewell Article On Medium
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andysporring (52)in #music • last year
My Music On Soundclaud
You can find some of my music on Soundcloud. I have some of my compositions before the horrible hard drive crash uploaded there, and I recently uploaded three new tracks. More…
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andysporring (52)in #organ • last year
Epilogous II - For Organ
I grew up in a priest family, and part of that was to take part in parish events and go to church every Sunday. The exception was when you were sick, but otherwise, we children…
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andysporring (52)in #composition • last year
Solistice - A Clarinet Concertino
When I started to write Solistice, my first intention was to write a piece for solo clarinet and strings, and I saw it first as a practice to get back to composing again. But…
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andysporring (52)in #composition • last year
A Composers Story Part Two
Why It Took Me Almost 14 Years To Return To Composing Mental illness is hard. and especially hard when you have no one there in your corner. In 2015, I was thrown out of…
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andysporring (52)in #composition • last year
A Composers Story Part One
If you listen, you can hear the music around you. From birds, wind, and trees. Yes, almost everything around makes sounds that can be used in music. How It Started In 1976…
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andysporring (52)in #learning • 3 years ago
Learning And Self Tutoring
Learning as a part of every day. Be a proud Polymath
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shadowspub (76)in HiveBloPoMo • 3 years ago
Do You Have A ZettleKasten?
I’m a person who does a lot of reading. Reading continues my learning throughout my life. Over the years I’ve often taken notes when reading something of interest in an effort to…
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