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Abstract

Before starting this research project, I was composing with a very intuitive approach, my way of making music was not especially rigorous and I was not using a pre-compositional schema. This portfolio consists of six compositions, scores and recordings, and a commentary. The commentary provides some context for how processes that generate harmony and how thinking about harmony and rhythm have shaped my music both technically and aesthetically and it will lead the reader through a work in progress of how I developed from a very intuitive way of composing to a more sketched and rigorous practice. It is a journey in a learning-active process of composing, sketching, thinking and writing about it. By using autoethnography I am able to construct my own bibliography, analysing my own self-reflective data that was built during the process of composing by blogging and documenting compositional approaches, and external experiences in other art forms.

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