If you’ve been composing and/or improvising for long enough, you will no doubt encounter the inescapable reality that you can’t create music in a vacuum, that every phrase you write/play is somehow connected to what someone else (or you) created in the past. In this episode, I explore how, like it or not, those connections randomly occur—and what you creatively do with them.
Music:
Variations on Two Chord Ostinato