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Most people experience music with their ears alone, but it exists in many other forms.  Composers “hear” it internally, reduced to electrical impulses flitting around their brains.  Beethoven wrote entire symphonies this way… after he had gone deaf.  If music may exist sans sound, its true essence must lie beyond the auditory realm, no?

A couple of our “Level 2” students crossed an important threshold today, moving past beat making to begin music theory training.  There’s an old concept that applies here, the idea of “drinking deep”.  This concept has weaved its way through art for millennia, starting with the Greeks.  So why is it showing up in our computer composition programs for Philadelphia’s youth?

Too ambitious!  Exploring the past and future of western music’s evolution requires a semester (I had one hour).  As I frantically cleared and filled the board with concepts, the accumulation of black “dry erase” ink found its way first to my hands and then my face, and a lot of examples were cut for time.  Still, it seems Peabody’s computer composition students got the point… all the techy-toys in the world mean little without a clear perspective on why you are using them.  Before launching into my 3D music visualization demo, shouldn't we explore the historical context?