Experimentalism and Discovery: Pascal Spadinger-Fengler on his musical process
A Vancouver-born musician, Pascal is a fourth year SFU student completing his third year in the music composition program. In the midst of his studies at SFU, he has also branched out into other programs such as philosophy and cognitive science while his primary artistic medium remains to be music composition, improvisation and performance. Whether working collaboratively or individually, Pascal enjoys creating multi-faceted musical pieces and experimenting with music creation and editing. Here he speaks on his evolving experiences working with music, digital collaboration and some of his favourite parts about his artistic processes. Is there a certain way you compose your music? If so, why do you return to it? How I go about writing music depends heavily on whether I am composing music for someone else to play or whether I am composing music for myself. If it's the latter, I don’t really have any sort of fixed process that I go by. However if it's the former, I usually be...