The Point of Distraction
A creative memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves chronicles a year spent writing a sonata from scratch, in full recognition of the likelihood of failure, to see what can be learned about ambition and limitation. And time.The Point of Distraction explores the way that second-string activities bring ones main int......
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A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces.What lies behind the creation of a piece of music? Does it spring fully formed from a composer¿s mind, or take shape in the recesses of the brain, revealing itself in stages over time? Is the creative act deliberate or happenstance? An inspired vision or the result of practice?Will Eaves, author and musician, shares his experience of writing eight new piano pieces after many years away from the keyboard. Some of the music is found in old notebooks and teenage enthusiasms, some of it is caught on the wing ¿ a response to the resurgence of the natural world during COVID lockdown. None of it is what he is meant to be doing.But then not all artistic interests are primary or professional interests. Sometimes it¿s the second-string activities, the diversions, that bring work ¿ and life ¿ into focus.The Point of Distraction is a unique account of music-making that embraces Bach, film, jazz,
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