In the past, when writing lyrics, one tool that I've made use of is a pair of scissors.

Taking the scissors to a text, whether that's something you've written yourself or maybe a book or newspaper, and chopping it up into words or phrases, allows you to take that preexisting body of work and recombine it into something new. Maybe you change the order, maybe you throw parts away or recontextualise passages to play with the meaning or tone. This technique can be a fun way to spark new lyrical ideas.

Recently though, as I've been exploring techniques of generative music, this idea of decomposition and reconstruction has become really interesting to me in a musical context and it's something I've been playing with, both as a way to spark ideas and as a compositional means to an end.

Today I want to take a look at some ways to approach this idea using some of the really neat features on the Arturia Keystep Pro.

The KeyStep Pro was kindly provided to me by Arturia.

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