Thank you.
Sheila.
Yes.
Hi, will you talk a bit about your composition process?
Oh, sure.
It differs.
I often am tuning into something that's already there.
I think I must blame somebody else.
I'm hearing something often and sounds come to me.
And I do spend a lot of time writing and then rewriting
and so forth.
I tend to write either very early or very late
but rarely middle, although some of you
here have heard me joke that if I
go to a conference or a meeting or something along that line
I will sit there and just write things or I draw,
and things just start to come together
and then I always have little bits of raw material
that I then we'd get.
And I think that's not very unique really or not unique.
But it's something I do in music, art, .
Different things like that are often in the mix.
And I'm much more of an auditory person than I am a visual.
Does that give you some sense?
OK.
Thank you.
Other question.
Sheila, will you talk about the Twitter things?
Oh, sure.
It's Twitter -pated
Twitter-patted yes.
Well, I do--
I did one time say that Twitter is proof
that even staccato can be boring but tedious, I guess I said.
But actually I do like to put a little tweet up sometimes
and it's fun for sprinkly pieces that are tiny
and it's a good excuse.
It's just a place to put them.
So somebody who wanted to put a little collection together
said, "Well, why don't you do them?"
So I've been doing them periodically
and it's just a nice little container to have.
Actually, I think Twitter is sort of a referral service.
If somebody isn't telling you that he's
shaving just then or something fascinating that sports
figures will tell you, it really is a good way
to shuttle information around and say, "Oh,
look at this cool article."
But I like to just do it as in look at this cool article
and go, "Oh."
So that's one way.
Anybody else?
Questions?
No.
OK.
If one pops up I'm sure they'll oblige you.
So thank you those fabulous reading.
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