Composition Workshop: Think. Feel. Arranging. Composing.

Think. Feel. Composing. Arranging. was an online workshop discussing two fundamental aspects of music composition: thinking and feeling -- featuring Composition Lecturer Misael Tambuwun and composition student Nathania Vanessa from Universitas Pelita Harapan.

This event was held at brunchtime on Tuesday (22/9) via ZOOM, with participants from all around Indonesia and abroad. In addition to the elaborate explanations, the event also included fun quizzes for all participants with cool doorprizes.

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Mr. Tambuwun opened the workshop with the philosophy of thinking and feeling. He had prepared various, easy-to-understand examples from everyday life for participants to relate to the topic, and used these to interact with them to achieve an animated atmosphere in the event.

This workshop used examples from Mr. Tambuwun's solo piano piece, Farewell Sonata, that Vanessa had arranged and orchestrated in trumpet and string quartet format for a concert in an instrumentation class she attended with him.

The baton was then passed to Vanessa to further explain about arranging: things to understand, things to keep in mind, and things to look out for. Vanessa also provided some common mistakes that arrangers often do -- a lot of them she had also been through before -- and suggested tricks to avoid them.

Vanessa closed her sharing with an imagery of thinking and feeling: that both is like two sides of a coin, both different but cannot be separated. One must have this coin, as a ticket to achieve great heights in arranging and composing.

Here is a snippet from Vanessa's Instagram story featuring a group photo of everyone attending the workshop.