Author: David Saulesco

If you know me and my perspective on music, it should not surprise you that I am a fan of genre crossovers – at least when done well. It’s easy to point fingers at bad examples and (mis)judge the entire concept, but that is unfairly reductive. Nor have I yet seen convincing arguments for genre purity… Continue reading Crossing the Streams

I don’t consider myself adverse to technology, nor do I think people who know me would describe me like that. I have been fascinated by machines and technology since I was very young and I still am. Nonetheless, expressing hesitancy or frustration about the spread of generative AI or the proliferation of data centres can… Continue reading Low Expectations

The world never stands still. A lot has happened since my last post back in May, much of which has been great! Some of it hasn’t been as good, to be fair, but at least this week I’d rather focus on all the good things. Most excitingly, last week I challenged myself once more in… Continue reading The State of Things

Like many, if not most, professional composers, it is impossible for me to make a living off of only composing. For various reasons, including a substantial part of my other work also being creative work, I unfortunately can’t consistently devote time and energy to compose. This means I have periods when I do little to… Continue reading How to Play Saulesco’s Etude Game

Last week, Swedish performing rights organisation Stim held a livestreamed presentation about its perspective on AI in the music industry, ahead of its upcoming annual general meeting. In September last year, Stim proudly declared in a press release that it was launching “the world’s first AI license for music […] developed in close dialogue with… Continue reading All-Inclusive

Tomorrow, May 5th, marks the 9th anniversary of livestreamed concerts in Berwaldhallen. A selection of the many hundreds of concerts broadcast on the Swedish Radio’s classical channel P2 in the past decade have also been filmed and streamed on Berwaldhallen’s website. I was there from the very beginning, as I even wrote about here on… Continue reading A Different Kind of Play

While I’m certainly not its intended audience, that hasn’t stopped me from enjoying the multiple-award-winning animated children’s series Bluey. My first direct contact with the series was, unsurprisingly, through Joff Bush and company’s fantastic music, but I have since then also watched several episodes and enjoyed them thoroughly. In fact, I have bassist and videographer… Continue reading I’m Not Crying, You Are

Back in February I devised a system, mostly for fun, to help me compose a little bit every day throughout March when I would be too busy for more involved composition work. To me, as I know it is to many others, composing is not only a skill you can learn, but also one that… Continue reading Saulesco’s Etude Game

I composed Notes in a Notebook, my little piece for two violins and violoncello, back in early January. The Weber Quartet premiered it two weeks ago, yesterday. I have been wanting to discuss it here on my blog ever since, and finally had the chance to sit down to write about it. Writing “Notes…” only… Continue reading Notes About Notes in a Notebook On a Blog

In the past week, I’ve had the opportunity to reflect on how interpretation can affect the performance of a composition – in both old music and new. Back in the 17th century, interpretation was the order of the day in notated European music. Around the start of the century, a new notation system for instrumental… Continue reading A Matter of Interpretation