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 pre-existing body of work and re-combine 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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