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        How to Compose
 

        Stay away from musical instruments. Write
        anything as long as you can hear it inside.
        Mary had a little lamb. Practise hearing this
        until it replaces internal monolog at all hours of
        the day and night. Subject it to augmentation,
        diminution, inversion, retrograde, series. Break
        it into pieces, hear it major and minor. Remember
        continuous variation is the natural state of the mind.
        When you can hear it run through variation after
        variation without interruption forget it. The ear is
        ready. Listen to the body. When you hear 13 breaths
        per 72 heart beats the chaos of aural data falls into
        writable patterns. This is the voice of the muse.
 
 



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