These papers come up now and again as I research my work as a composer. I believe that composing music with meaning has to reflect reality. Research raises many issues both musical and ideological. Meaningful music has to be based on ideas relating to the real world as I do not believe in escaping into abstract ideas, an unreasonable tool used to avoid reality and the resulting chaos when expressed thus. This could be seen as a contradictory statement as music is an abstract art. In music, time is a horizontal element characterised by melody whilst space is created by harmony and or counterpoint in a vertical plain. Using this interpretation, music can reflect reality! In fact, I suggest, all art is a reflection of the tensions brought about by the act of living and therefore linked to reality. These tensions can then be resolved through any creative medium (e.g. art, sculpture, drama, and so on) which has a tradition with a common thread into the future. Changes in life redefine the future allowing for endless possibilities in the representation that the arts reflect.

Composing raises so many issues that superfluous ideas, irrelevant to the essence of one composition, can be transferred into documents or other compositions.