The process of working on the current piece has been incredibly interesting to me as I am employing scripts for the first time to help analyze and understand the material I am working with. I remember back in college I used to analyze my material in a very similar way though mostly by hand. Then for some time I either worked out ideas mostly in my head or vaguely on paper. Now I find myself working in ways familiar to me from my earlier days as a composer, this time though with slightly different tools.
Same but different.
I am finding these tools that I have built for myself to be very useful indeed, instantly doing the things I used to do by hand but with much quicker feedback and less margin for error. I find myself fascinated with the information I am seeing; I think this may very well become integrated into my composing process into the future…