n the book Sparks of Genius, the authors indicate the tools for creativity;
observing (perhaps watching someone else perform, practice or compose)
imaging (replaying what you observed)
hearing (attending a performance, listening to CDs)
feeling (noticing what your body does while playing an instrument)
abstracting (making things simpler)
recognizing patterns (Seeing that a pop song usually has at least 2 sections and each section usually has at least two phrases etc...)
pattern forming (composition or improvisation)
body thinking (proprioception=our bodies know how to do things and we don’t know that until after we’ve already done them.)
analogizing (composition is like a recipe, composition is like a language)
empathizing (knowing that what makes an emotional response in oneself is also what may work for others)
dimensional thinking (depth and space of instruments when engineering a recording)
modeling (building models based on theories and then testing the theories to see if they work in the real world)
playing (with distinctions, boundaries, unassailable truths and limits of utility)
transforming (inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion etc..)
synthesizing (sense impressions, feelings, knowledge, and memories come together in a multimodal, unified way)
A realization came to me that when the Gongster is making a list of rhythms or most common solutions to the melodic puzzle, that is the act of abstraction: simplifying things which was based on patterns recognized in the research cited and will be available for use when reaching the stage of new pattern formation.
The tiles with all the rhythms and melodic cells written on them are the same as models, just like the authors talk about. The model was built to test my theories in the real world. We can experiment with combining them in different, hopefully surprising ways (retrograde, rhythmic mode, simultaneous) which would be the act of play.
Here are my new rhythmic tiles for just such a purpose and an example combination creating an a), b), c), d) arrangement. If you can’t see these links then you can just go to the second page of my music composition folder under pics.
[IMG]http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh53/gongchime/MostCommonrhythmtiles.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh53/gongchime/RhythmExample.jpg[/IMG]
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