Composers' Forum Spring 2019

The idea that resonated most with me from Bora Yoon was her interest in imbuing her music with a sense of transport, where the music can take the listener into a different space and/or time. When I hear new music and I’m alone (and my goal is to listen with an open mind), I often close my eyes – which places me in an inexorably individual and simultaneously infinite space: the space inside my imagination. Whatever memories, ideas, sounds, images, etc. that come up while hearing the song I tend to associate with the song and vice versa. Since Yoon’s goal is to write pieces that evoke specific imagery, she must have a strong understanding of this for herself. Yoon conceives of music as tangible, which motivates her to create pieces that employ imagery of the human experience, nature, and other facets of real life. There can be a tendency for many composers of a certain kind (a kind I believe to be myself) to really lean into the complexity of their musical ideas and they can end up with

Welcome to the Spring 2019 Composers' Forum blog! Here we'll collegially discuss the music of our many fascinating guests. Each semester, you're required to write one blog post (about 500 words) discussing your reaction to a guest's music and/or their talk. It would also be great to relate the guest's music to your own compositional work as well. When you're not blogging about a guest yourself, you do need to read other people's posts and leave a comment . This needn't be very long, and is a great way to stay engaged with each other's ideas. We'll be keeping track of who participates in the online discussion, so please chime in whenever there is an opportunity to write. We do not write about guests if they are NYU faculty , so there are weeks in which we won't be writing on the blog. When you accept your invitation to the blog, please take a moment to set up your profile so we can all get to know each other! Fill in your Blogger pr