The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1982 Page: 5 of 8

                                
Arts & Entertainment
The North Texas Daily
Page 5
Wednesday. September 29. 1982
Composer's goal: to create
with imaginative expertise
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Editor’s note: This is the first of part
of a continuing series on creativity.
By JACQUE JOHNSON
Staff Writer
Creating compositions with imaginative
expertise a goal Rodney Waschka II.
Dallas graduate student, has set for
himself.
Ills creative talent is an integral part
of his character. Even when his mind
forms an idea in the middle of a night's
sleep. Waschka will crawl out ol bed to
jot the idea down while it's fresh.
"When I begin composing a piece.”
he said. ”1 have an idea I want to con-
vey. either a message or musical idea.
This idea suggests resources I can use
And although this begins to limit my
composition, it limits it in a good way.
"Once I build this conceptual frame-
work. I then decide what I will hang on
this framework." he said. "I decide what
type of musical idiom I want to use
rock, avant-garde. Also, do I want to
make the music loud or soft?”
“AFTER I HAVE these stylistic var-
iables determined, then I can begin com-
posing the piece.” he said.
Currently. Waschka is composing a
concerto for alto saxophone and cham-
ber orchestra. He wants to compose for
different types of musical ensembles
Waschka said Ins ultimate goal for earn-
ing a living is to combine a career of
playing and freelance composing. "This
is difficult to do." he said. "Even many
of the best composers teach to support
themselves.”
A composer is able to imagine how a
piece will sound without hearing it played
by an orchestra. Waschka said. He used
a passage from Arthur Honegger's book,
"1 am a Composer.” to explain this
ability.
"Honegger said composing is like read-
ing a book,” he said. "While reading,
a person doesn’t have to sav the words
out loud to know how they sound or to
understand their meaning.
“COMPOSING IS the same way.”
Waschka said. "Just as a reader inter-
nalizes words, a composer internalizes
sounds.”
A composer may also imagine how a
composition will sound by using a piano
to hear the pitches, he said. “I can also
imagine a piece by imagining rhythms,
or by using the methods together.
“A composer must also imagine the
el feet these pitches and rhythms arc going
to have on an audience."
Waschka said a most important differ-
ence exists between a musician and a
composer. A composer has special abil-
ity to project what he wants, how the
piece will sound and the piece's effect
on the audience, he said
All composers have many ideas for mu-
sical pieces, he said, but these ideas don't
always work out.
“Some of my ideas don't work out
for some reason, so I just file them
away,” he said. "I may use them in an-
other piece at some later time."
Although sometimes Waschka expe-
riences a block while composing music,
he has devised a system for continuing
his productivity as a composer.
“IF A BLOCK happens, I usually sit
down and write anything,” he said.
’ Then, I can criticize it and sec what I
need to work on. This is better than star-
ing at a blank page with nothing to work
on.
"After the piece is written, and it
somehow doesn’t seem right. I try to iso-
late the problem. I then study the com-
position, and I might decide it has a lack
of unity or it’s boring.”
Once Waschka identifies the problem,
he may be able to solve it. “But if this
doesn’t clear it up, I may listen to other
composers’ music and see how they
worked with these same problems.
"I don’t think creative people have
writers’ block, unless they are having a
personal problem.” he said
Music is a means of communication
which allows a person to be more exact,
he said. “Linguistics arc lacking.” he
said. "A musical piece doesn’t have to
simply mean the word anger. It can sym-
bolize and imply more than that.
"Writing a piece organizes and ex-
presses truth as I perceive it.” he said.
"My compositions are related to my own
growth as a human being, my more phil-
osophical life.
"It reflects my evolution as a human,
my interactions and reactions. Finding
life's reality is more important than ev-
eryday events."
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Photo by GINA JURIK
From left to right, Wood, Martin and Lund during “Can-Can” dress rehearsal
Roaring musical opens Oct. 6
NT's presentation ol Cole Porter’s and
Abe Burrow’s musical, "Can-Can”, will
open at X p.m. Oct 6 at the University
Theater
The musical is about Pistache. who
owns a laundry by day and runs a rip
roaring, good time dance hall by night.
Pistache is portrayed by Vivian Hoffman.
Fort Worth senior
Conference accepts student computer music
By JANE KNAPP
Special Writer
“Pictograph." the first computer mu-
sic composition by Bob Keefe, will be
played at the sixth International Computer
Music Conference, held Sept. 27-Oct 2
m Venice, Italy.
Keefe. Fresno, Ca., graduate fellow
m composition, said he completed the
eight minute tape just in time for the April
deadline. He learned during the first week
in June he was one of nine Americans
to have Ins work accepted for perform-
ance at the conference
“It is benefieal to me.” Keefe said,
"because at the conference. I will be rec-
ognized as a composer in computer
music. ”
Keefe said he worked w ith the digital
synthesizer in the Electronic Music Cen-
ter and had access to all the sound pro-
grams He said he used information from
another program and manipulated it for
his piece because he was not familar w ith
computer language.
He chose the basic paramete    e
composition and selected three particular
types of sounds. The program generated
random numbers, which he plotted on
graph paper He said lie used the shape
of the plot with its peaks and valleys lor
the shape of his work.
After choosing three groups. Keefe se-
lected high notes for the peaks and low
notes for the valleys. Il the line rose
sharply, the sounds went fast: if the line
dropped slowly, the sounds went slow
The music represents the picture on the
graph, he said, thus "Pictograph
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“Can-Can” will feature Jamie Martin,
Denton junior, as Claudine, Pistache’s
laundress who is a feature dancer at night.
Rob Lunde, Arlington sophomore, plays
Boris, a striving young sculpter who cre-
ates art during a close association with
the laundry/dance hall.
Willie Wood, Denton senior, plays
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close the dance hall but can’t bring him-
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Pistache.
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