Final blog post
https://www.instagram.com/gastonstrumpet/ This term, my project of improvising on the trumpet for 1 minute allowed me to express my artistic spirit in a way I hadn’t done before. These simple nuggets of creativity made it easier to create, in that the goal was less daunting and more manageable. Doing this project also gave me a space to create without judgment, which I have always struggled with. The only requirement is that the music had to be 1 minute long. This limit freed me up to explore in non-judgmental ways, because all the pieces were equally valid. In one example , I played around with randomly overlaying related improvisations to create a new texture. It may have sounded dissonant, but it was entirely new. This initial exploration led me to create the last post, “farewell, farewell forever”, in which I improvised with a chorale from the 1600s and made it my own. This idea was also inspired by the Jurgenson text, in which he says, “photographic images, even after digital mani