I have been composing/listening to music since I was a 'baby',,,My mother was a pianist,,,I started on piano 1st and then guitar when I was 8,,,I studied with pre and post WWII classical,,,later on jazz composers,,,I am neither,,,
I have a PRODUCTION process depending on the medium,,,solo gtr, orchestra, gtr synth, film instrumentation, jazz trio etc,,,,but compositionally I do not have a process,,,I am just,,, there,,, I meet someone, something happens, I read a book, somebody dies, I see a picture of an elephant, I fall in love, I drive from Boston to Athens,I have a conversation,I jog,I perform, sleep at the plaza or in my car,,,,,,,,music plays in my head,,,alot of the times I write it down,,,I trust,,, that what I am hearing is current , derivative of my life experiences, good,,'trained',,,the thought processes involve,,,,,,,,how and the hell am I going to record, produce,,THAT! I will never earn a masters/doctorate,,,There is abolutely no way what is assigned for me to do/accomplish/'learn',,,, has any relevance,,,I hear music, I write it down/record it,,,the end,,,if a violin is needed and is there great ,,,if not I will drive to Alaska and borrow a friends orchestra sound library and play it on my gtr synth,,,I really, really, really don't care about much,,, love music, creativity, art, poetry, it's places of exhibition/concert, club, church,,, the people that create it,,,,their loves, pets, conversations,,,,AND that's about IT! That's the/my process,,,Kate, my wife, is the 1st female grad in all of Brirish history from the RNCM,,,England a patriarchal music society,,,She wanted to live in America,,,I am surrounded by/she/Anna are wonderful,,,, some of my friends are far more intellectual than I,,, they think up/create all kinds of ways to make money,,,they are annoying,,,we are surrounded by dogs/have enough money most of the time,,,LOL,,,,It is always difficult,,,the process,,,God,,,The 4 steps to mastery are 1) unconscious incompetence,,when you don't know that you don't know 2) conscious incompetence,,,when you know that you do not know 3) conscious competence,,,when you know you know 4) unconscious competence,,,when you know and it happens automatically