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Sketchtober

by Patrick McMinn

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Day 1 02:08
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Day 2 00:58
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Day 3 01:52
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Day 4 01:22
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Day 5 01:47
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Day 6 02:07
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Day 7 01:48
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Day 8 03:28
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Day 9 03:59
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Day 10 01:51
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Day 11 01:23
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Day 12 02:36
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Day 13 02:07
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Day 14 02:19
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Day 15 04:03
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Day 16 00:53
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Day 17 02:16
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Day 18 01:10
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Day 19 01:08
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Day 20 01:32
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Day 21 01:06
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Day 22 02:08
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Day 23 01:03
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Day 24 01:12
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Day 25 02:23
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Day 26 01:34
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Day 27 01:52
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Day 28 01:35
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Day 29 01:12
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Day 30 01:11
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Day 31 01:36

about

1 short piece a day for the month of October 2015

from 11/1/2015:

For the past month, I’ve been posting one short musical sketch a day. I called it sketchtober, riffing on the drawlloween hashtag that proliferated across social media.
This is all of them, collected in one place. Some had really interesting elements, things that I hope to develop beyond their initial spark of an idea into actual pieces, and some were failures, either ideas that barely held my attention even as I worked on them, or sketches that collapsed in on themselves when all the pieces were put together. Most were somewhere in between.
I set out with the intention of learning to trust my intuition and working quickly and decisively, things I know I accomplished over the course of the month. What I didn’t anticipate was that trusting my intuition, more often than not, meant falling back on old patterns and habits a majority of the time, whether it was key centers and melodic gestures, synthesizer routings and effects, or even my physical location and posture while I worked. That said, there were a few genuine discoveries while working on this project, ideas and manners of creation that seemed to emerge without forethought or intention that will continue to inform my music for a long time to come, and things that I doubt I would have discovered were I not to have taken this on.
I’m looking forward to working on a larger scale.
‪#‎sketchtober‬

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released November 1, 2015

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Patrick McMinn Baltimore, Maryland

composer, trumpet mangler, and multimedia artist interested in feedback loops both physical and conceptual

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