Frank Corcoran

I have found writing a ” word – music” radio-programme is also composition. I use time . I weave words and music.
( Yes, the opening matters greatly; also how I end )
There is a rhythm to my setting of musical examples; juxtaposition can be powerful, a passage with only text ( – itself perhaps using one or several voices ).
Then there’s the “information ” versus ” tone ” tension which I must also compose – none of your old Music Appreciation gush.
– What exactly do I wish to convey ? About the music under aural analysis ( the radio-listener has only two ears ) ?
Comparison of motifs and phrases which I first must disect, their bisection and variations and expansions or being whittled down ?
The art of making a radio-programme ” about” and with music . The thinking ear.