I've been thinking more about my compositions; with my proposal approaching I'd really like to be lucid in outlining my plans.
I do prefer writing pieces that musically try to depict an event of some sort, such as writing a piece about a black hole therefore the timbre could get incredibly more dense... or the idea I had for using the data I recorded during the Geminids meteor shower. I have written pieces that are based on observations too, and I translate what I see into music. Come to think of it, I don't just sit down and write a pretty little piece then name it after a star... there is actually a process behind it. So perhaps I'll look at music that uses similar methods for my dissertation to give the two a stronger connection...
