[LAU] regarding "quick & efficient"

[Will Godfrey]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 08:47:20 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Reading an interview with Philippe Leroux in the Computer Music Journal, 
> when asked about spending 20 months on a 20-minute piece he replied :
> 
> "I try to spend as much time as I can with each piece before letting it 
> go into the world, so to speak. That allows me to re-read, to correct, 
> to refine the details, to add little things that enrich the musical 
> discourse in a manner that allows for as many levels of perception of 
> the work as possible during the process of composing. I like to have a 
> profound understanding of the piece; it is a daily two-way communication 
> that I sustain with it. That allows me to get to compositional levels 
> that are just not possible when  you compose something fast. Then again, 
> having said that, in the real world, some works are written a lot faster 
> than that."
> 
> Best,
> 
> dp

Months? MONTHS!!!

Some of my stuff has taken years to (maybe) complete :)

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.