Compose

When I readed about composing I found that you have to gather some abilities and knowledge, and you have to be in a mood period. The abilities can help you to understand the instruments workflow, the sound harmony, the sense of interpretation, etc. The knowledge can guide you throught the complex world of music notation and the physics of the sound (acoustic), actually can show you new ways to improve your abilities. In the other hand you have the "mood period", that helps you to get inspiration, because your feelings becomes more sensitive, so is easier for you to find the sound, melody, note, etc., that feels like you feel the world around you. But, why a mood period? Why sadness, hate or love suffering? The answer in the books is simple. When you are disforic you have more time to expend with you inner self, you have more time to explore your world of feelings.

Ok, no book said that exactly like that, but when you finish the book you feel like it said it loudly and proudly.

I think that if you can control your emotions and your feelings you can be in a good mood and get conected with your inner self anyway, if you are not so talented but you do you best to reach your goals you can understand the world of music composing, and if you don't know much about acoustic and notation there are a lot of books about basic understanding of physics of waves and also more programs that write and read music sheets for you.

Andres Robert

This place displays

- I remember that I was wander, walking in a estrange path, no lights were turned on, it was silent. I was not able to hear my own steps, my own breath, my own heart beat. 

When I decided to go there, I knew that it should be a dark, silent and cold place. It was dark as the back of my eyelids in a frighten night, silent as an important awkward moment, and cold as a farewell hug.I was seeking something that I couldn't recognize, everything smelled like a memory, that place tasted bitter, I remember.

And I was able to perceive my imagination (none of the five senses allows you to feel it but I think we have another senses, like the sense that allow you to feel happy, but you also need another kind of stimulus to make that sense work), it became narrow and dispirited, something made me feel unwelcome, I couldn't realize what did I said before I went there. I knew that it was important, I was sure about my journey to the oblivion, but I did not remember what to rescue in there, I was purposeless.

It seamed to be familiar, that darkness, that silence, that cold. I could see the darkness, I could hear the silence and I was able to feel the warm of the cold. I found it!. I said in my mind, but I didn't know what did I found. It felt like it was no time around. Lost in this insanity I decided to fall, fall into this big dream, feeling that I was losing what I wanted the most in that instant... my memory.

In that exactly moment the ground turned velvety soft, like a slenderized grass, The fall did not hurt me at all. When I opened my eyes again I saw this new world, It was like been walking in the sky, lights from the horizon to my body filled that obscured eternity. But the happiness wasn't there. It looks like something was unknown whereabout, I could feel the heat of the lights, I could see all the colours allover, it smelled like orange and almonds, but it was still quiet and soundless. No sounds were around.

Then I remembered. I was looking for a song. And the oblivion god leave me deaf. That was the curse in my quest... I realize that when I fell in that dream it was still dark, and cold, and bitter, but not silent, I was able to feel the still vibrations with my inner self.

And that was how I started to see the music in everything.

- But... Did you find the song? How did you came back from... there?

- I forgot that. sorry.

Andres Robert

Starting point

...when I started to feel this insane need to compose, I was living in an "odd minded" situation. Everything in my world was a misunderstanding, but inside my head something was clear... something wanted to scape from me... something wanted to be part of me from the outside.

But it was not that easy. Actually it was very hard because this need became an obsession, I was looking for something than could pull off this feeling. And finally I found the music, it could be my shaft.

But the music by itself was already with me. I was a keyboard player, and it was not enough, I feel that in someway I had to mix that feeling with the music, but how.

Long I stood there, trying to make something with my fingers in front of the piano, but nothing came.

One day, my life was hit by a sentimental storm, I felt in a weird feeling inside my head (I will not talk about my heart, for now). When I am nervous, or I feel bad for something, I use the piano to relax my thoughts, to think again in the issue and feel better with it. So I went to the piano and I started to press the keys, relaxing myself with it, but something happened; my hand in the keyboard made a melody that expressed exactly how I felt in that precisely moment, and each time that I played it, I felt like if the bad feeling was no more, actually the more that I mastered the better that I felt with myself. Finally I felt it no more when the song was ready, I was healed by the music...

A. Robert

Fractal Regret

It is a story about the inevitable obsolescence of the past generations. Nobody can interrupt this transition. But it is not only about the new generation and the old generations, it is about the ones who are the watchers, the ones who are able to see this transition from another paralel mental universe.

Song title: Fractal Regret

Album: Fractal Regret

Author: Barbara Echard

Composer: Andres Robert

Performed by: Vieux Desirs

You can Listen to the song at:

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