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Hi, i a have a Bachelor in Music Composition. Classical stuff, academic music. Afeter finishing my studies bac in 2008, i´ve been doing mainly contemporary popular music, influenced by tango, world music, rock and jazz. I am now looking for a place to do a master in composition, Europe o USA are my favorites. But i dont know which place will be good to develop composition technique in an "ECM" style, of course, looking for my personal voice. 

I have a few pieces os my Quintet, which show my personal style/search and level. Know good places to check? I imagine NYU would be a pretty good place... 

Would love to hear your opinions...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnq3ptAAfrA&list=PLC4Bl1ZWyLBEJ3KDyCl2SKy95_7EpyHG4

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By ECM i refer to artists like Meredith Monk, Tomasz Stanko, Ralph Towner, etc... I have the idea that being in a first level environment concentrated on working on my music will make it different than like in my homtown where is very difficult to get top level things and where you are with your attention in thousands of daily matters that sometimes distract yourself from composition... That´s my idea...

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This makes no since to me. It just sounds to me that you have not done anything musically since you graduated, and you are trying to run away from home to get away from it all. Life is a distraction to composers. Get over it, learn to deal with it, and get your butt writing music. If mommy and daddy are paying for your education, then go where ever you like, but if you are paying for more school understand this, more education should be an investment to your financial future and not just another reason to waste time and go in to debt because you are not ready to make a living in music in the real world. I never heard of any of those "artists" before. It cracks me up when musicians call themselves artists. I've never heard of any of those people so I dedicided to look them up and find out who they were. It would be easy to learn any of those people's style. For Monk, just play one chord over and over, singing nonsence rhythms and hyena noises tricking your audience into believing it's art, for Stanko learn to play classical guitar then play jazz standards, and for Towner learn to play smooth jazz on a trumpet. Not that hard. Heck, I will even teach you those chords, lol.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Not agree Rodney 100% , though i do know that the best thing you can do as a composer is to sit your butt and start getting music written. And the thing about mommy and daddy may also have some truth in it. I can say anyway that probably you live in US (?) and production facilities are quite different from those in Argentina, and the same goes with the average level of players, orchestras and composers as well... There isnt the same information or materials here... and people dont have the same access to the same things...

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