Howard Skempton (one of my favourite living composers, and someone I was lucky enough to study with privately for a short while) once said:

One studies the technical properties of the instruments, the abilities and limitations of the specific players, the amount of rehearsal time available, the place, the performance situation and potential audience … once I know these things, the piece is there in all its essentials.

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Structure has always been important to Skempton, and it’s important to me, too. In fact, Skempton described himself as a constructivist at heart. In earlier posts I’ve talked about the journey visitors will take through the vessels as the core to the structure of the sound design. Imagine how pleased I was, then, to discover the above graph in the Experience Strategy documentation. While this is still only at the draft stage, the designers are creating accurate plans that I can match to my own plans for music…

You’ve never heard anything by Howard Skempton? Do yourself a favour: put 12 minutes of your life aside, get some good headphones, and listen to this: