TAYLOR ROSS™|MUSIC

  • Day 72

    The art I made today includes a few hours of editing my, ‘Tetra’ – for solo flute. Taking private composition lessons after graduating is amazing. Starting a large form symphonic work, officially.The art I made today also includes the way I lived my day. Meditation at the boise institute for Buddhist studies. And listening to…

  • Day 71

    What does Banks, ID and the art that I made today have in common?2 Bars. See you tomorrow lovelies.

  • Day 70

    This late night posting is incredulous.Art made includes figuring out a few major 7 dim 5th triple stops on the cello followed by a melodic run made of the same intervalic material.Spent the day mostly reading at camals back.And went to a faculty recital at bsu. The illustrious Del parkinson. Pictures at an exhibition among…

  • Day 69

    I keep drinking coffee and staying up late. I’m getting behind on the routine.Hence the late night phone posts without images etc. Finished another book today. Short one. Audio/ebook, The power of discipline. Good studies. Good techniques.Composed off and on for a few hours total combined today.So it worked.Even wrote some lyrics to the acoustic…

  • Day 68

    Art made was a single phrase for the solo cello. Played guitar but didn’t write anything new. Listened to a good bit of an audiobook about discipline, covered in footnotes and references for scientific articles. I’m getting up at 6amSee you tomorrow lovelies.

  • Day 67

    Day 67

    I wrote two bars and completed some of a form chart for the cello solo.And wrote another verse for a different acoustic folk song that I actually like.Amongst the other time wasters is the reset of a sleep schedule. Where does the fire go.When it sits as an amber,In a cold cave whose walls are…

  • Day 66

    Day 66

    I did art today. I wrote a verse or so of open c tuning pop folk. That I actually liked Different from the normal post tonal 21st century contemporary classical that is my trade. But still love. I’m writing this on my phone. Pretty easy. Pixies and modest mouse tonight. This and Bon Iver was…

  • Day 65

    Day 65

    Amidst the terror I Composed. Even though I didn’t want to. I did. Cello Solo an hour at most.

  • Day 64

    Day 64

    Up late Chose to sleep through alarm 7am Recorded Dreams. Getting easier at recall already. Noticing things that should have triggered lucidity. Typing passwords, etc. Lettering is always off in dreams, and clocks too. Never consistent. Coffee Morning Journal Read 20 pages I have no excuses, reading about what holocaust victims had to suffer through.…

  • Day 63

    Day 63

    up at 6am Coffee and meditation first 20 minutes more coffee and morning journal Read 10 pages Morning walk about 35 minutes Back home Breakfast Decided to finish Anatomy of A Breakthrough. Was so close I couldn’t stand it. Felt good. On to Man’s Search for Meaning and Musical Composition in the twentieth century by…