A New Dimension to Musical Composition

My new approach to composition is an outcome of my time reading about the unified theory of energy in the late 1990’s in preparing to compose a commissioned work “Super String Quartet” This commission inspired by this play on words was the first time I was asked to compose a piece around a given title for the work. After musing over this mind bending hypothesis, I thought about everyday life differently. Our lives are interrupted segments of activities, yet our minds are tuned to a constant stream of thoughts. Are those streams of thought just smaller byes of a larger stream of consciousness? As I grow older I have realized that I am running out of measurable time-a losing battle of consecutive horizontal time, and this is leading me to think more about “vertical’ time, or time deeper in thought. I asked my self, could I create music that is deeper in time or thought, not just the product of ‘hidden’ themes or patterns in its structure or notation. Could a piece of music have a deeper meaning if it was part of a larger scheme of music thought and could the listener perceive this? Many composers have written cycles of works around dramatic themes. However, these works were most often written as consecutive compositions one growing from the next. What if I composed a work on one theme or perhaps based on a setting of poems and during the composition of that work, I took time off and composed another work using the music and the poetic themes of the first work. Moreover, when I returned to the first work I brought with me the most essential musical ideas of the second piece to continue composing the first piece. Would that first piece composed over a broader period; have meaning that is more musical? Therefore, if I choose themes and sources of inspiration that have broader horizons, could I change the essence of the meaning of the music.