These are my tips to make composing a bit easier; a bit easier to get started, a bit easier to find new ideas, a bit easier to develop those ideas.

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Hack 1 0:06 Collect Instruments
Hack 2 1:00 Sketching with Technology
Hack 3 3:08 Walking with a smart phone
Hack 4 3:46 Listening to very short clips
Hack 5 4:36 React to the choice of instruments
Hack 6 5:36 Using plugins
Hack 7 6:48 Two essential Books
Hack 8 8:00 Impose arbitrary restrictions
Hack 9 8:53 Games
Hack 10 9:14 Imitate something nonmusical



Elaine Gould: Behind Bars:
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Blatter: Instrumenation and Orchestration:
https://www.amazon.com/Instrumentatio...

Hisokana Pianisuto
An amazing pianist I've worked with in the past, who now does fantastic piano arrangements of experimental rock and other music.
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