THESE DAYS, anyone with a computer can be a composer. Sort of. Give a piece of commercial software such as Magenta, developed by Google, the first few notes of a song, and it will make something ...

When you have collected some sounds of your own, the next stage of the composing process is to experiment with them. You can: change your sounds by making them shorter or longer.

Composing a Work of Art Eighth Blackbird features works that were inspired by visual art By Allan Kozinn Jan. 20, 2016 6:08 pm ET ...

Bateson’s most famous book, “Composing a Life,” was published in 1989. It spread, word-of-mouth, hand to hand, around the world — reprinted dozens of times in more than a dozen languages.

Elliott Carter turns 103 today. Amazingly, he's still composing, still doing fine. At the end of the birthday concert given in his honor last Thursday, the composer trundled up to the stage of ...

I don’t know how this news passed me by, but Don Graham ‘s classic book about composition called Composing Pictures is back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years! Graham played a ...

Composing the Island: A Century of Music in Ireland 1916-2016, September 7th - 25th A new centenary project launched by Heather Humphreys (Minister for Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts ...