Soundboard: Eunike Tanzil

'Music Always Serves a Purpose' - From motif to structure: using five to ten emotional adjectives, exploring ideas at the piano, and sketching a timeline for a piece’s intensity and climax. - How improvisation can reveal unexpected directions, and how the piano helps test harmonies and musical colors. - The First of Everything: lyricism, soaring melodies, and touches of minimalism. - Why concert works, streaming albums, and film scores call for different priorities—from the musicians playing a piece to the characters on screen. - How a move to Los Angeles during the writers’ strike led to a social media series transforming strangers’ hummed melodies into compositions. - Clarity and service in composition: helping listeners feel the music and remember even three to five notes.