David McMullin

Composer of music in search of a spirit of wonder.

Current projects include The Luminous Mysteries, a setting of the complete prayers of the rosary for choir and orchestra, and a series of compositions custom made for individual musicians recovering from strokes.

#Composer #NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic #MusicAsPrayer #MusicInHealth

#中文
#español

(Banner image above: colorful abstract painting, watercolor on rice paper, by PC Ning. Avatar: boring headshot of me.)

compositions: https://david-mcmullin.com/compositions
bio: https://david-mcmullin.com
score videos: https://makertube.net/a/mcmullin
recordings: https://mirlo.space/david-mcmullin

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2026-04-25T18:49:12Z

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2025-10-19 15:54:20 UTC

A couple days ago, I boosted a question about PPE to avoid COVID, and someone replied that we “need to stop” with all these protective measures, and the sooner we do, the “better we will be.” I obviously disagree: I don’t “need to stop” protecting myself because some stranger says so, and I would not “be better” with a debilitating illness.
I can’t find that comment and I seem to have accidentally deleted my response. But I keep thinking about it…
1/
#COVIDisNotOver

2025-05-08 18:58:24 UTC

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And…? What’s he like? I don’t know anything about him except what I read in the NYT an hour ago, (which I take with a big grain of salt with these kinds of things).

2025-03-27 18:00:02 UTC

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Now I've tried playing with it once. I'll try again later, and will probably have much more to say about it if I find the time. For now: This is at once (fascinatingly):
1) Not a bad thing for what it is, probably useful for most people and reflective of how they think about music; and
2) Emblematic of everything I can't stand about this widespread diminished understanding of what music is and what it can do.

2025-03-25 21:12:25 UTC

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I was afraid I would object so strongly to the approach they describe here that I’d be boiling mad, but it’s actually pretty interesting, and it probably works; I’d be curious to try it out. It seems reasonably well thought out, but the whole thing is built up from premises and assumptions about music that I don’t share, and even actively resist. For just that reason, though, it’s clarifying as a thought experiment.

2024-11-30 02:36:59 UTC

Fussing with the seams:
Any place in a composition, at any level of structure, where something ends and the next thing begins, if I make the slightest little adjustment to the length of the gap in between—or if there’s no gap, to how much they overlap—I’m always amazed what a dramatic effect that can have on the overall momentum, energy and shape of a piece. I keep relearning this but it surprises me a little every time.
#composing #ContemporaryMusic @npub1qcn…qevp @npub1eus…vl8u

2024-09-22 20:18:21 UTC

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I do miss New York sometimes.

2024-09-22 20:15:50 UTC

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At that point, the window shattered, and his metal stress ball rolled, gently jingling, to a stop on the far side of my room.
And that's where you all came in, a few posts up-thread.

2024-09-22 20:13:57 UTC

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The guy looks up, sees me in the window laughing, and makes a reasonable but incorrect deduction.
Now he starts yelling and throwing stuff. The first shot hit the wall outside, but hard enough that I knew he meant business. So I closed the window and backed away.

2024-09-22 20:11:33 UTC

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As I opened my 3rd-floor window and stuck my head out, I saw something fall from somewhere above me, where an upstairs neighbor had evidently read my mind.
An egg went splat, dead center on the guy's windshield. Bulls-eye. This, I admit, struck me as pretty funny.

2024-09-22 20:07:30 UTC

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This will make more sense if I tell the whole story. Someone had double parked, trapping the guy's car in a curbside parking space in front of my building. So he started honking the horn. Incessantly, and for a long time. It was around midnight.
When I couldn't take it anymore, I went to the window to see what was going on, contemplating, as I approached, what might be effective things either to yell or to throw at whoever's making all this noise.