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Here are all my blogposts in chronological order

Fragile April 2022 - Originally posted on Composition and Improvisation:
Climate Change has made it quite evident that we can no longer take anything for granted. Many pillars of our existence have been revealed as stages or facets of much broader processes. We are finding that even such things as the Gulf Stream and the Greenland Ice Sheet turn…
Kant I? – Does improvising improve self-esteem? March 2022 - In this episode, composer Casper Hernández Cordes draws on his own experiences with improvisation and as a teacher to reflect on the relation between open artistic practices and selfhood.
1632-nov-24 – Spinoza, numbers, and human emotions in music March 2022 - How can math help us express something as utterly human as emotions in music? 1632-11-24 is the date of birth of Dutch philosopher Benedict Spinoza. In Spinozas time, Europe was in a state of constant war, where people with power wanted to expand their possessions, invading other territories. Spinozas philosophy can be seen as a…
#011300 Epilogue (2021) February 2022 - – for piano solo As a part of my project – Music as an eco system – this is a composition based on an improvisation on a composition “Last Dream”. Here is the improvisation: Here is the score: Feel free to play and perform it. It’s open source. Please let me know.
#010A00 Epilogue (2021) February 2022 - – for piano solo As a part of my project – Music as an eco system – this is a composition based on an improvisation on a composition “Last Dream”. Here is the improvisation: Here is the score: Feel free to play and perform it. It’s open source. Please let me know.
Epilogues – improvising a sound ecosystem February 2022 - Listen and subscribe on your preferred podcast service:
Problem solving in math and music – what is the connection? January 2022 - Solving math problems is satisfying. Listening to music is satisfying. Is there a connection?
Has musical composition influenced the discovery of the DNA? December 2021 - Has musical composition influenced the discovery of the DNA? Geneticians have used musical composition as a means to understand genetic data. How about the other way around? Has the development of the musical notational system in Western Europe made the idea of code in living organisms possible?
How to keep track of my artistic research? December 2021 - Since I started working with music as an ecosystem, I ran into a problem: How can I keep track of all the different variations/spinoffs/mutations? I needed a kind of coding system, and after some thought, I came up with the following. Color codes as a naming system The thought of giving the improvisations a number…
Invitation – explore with us*! November 2021 - I would like to invite you to a place. It is a place, I have invented. It's a musical composition called "Last Dream". I made this composition by improvising on the piano.