One night in 1985, a teenage Kristin Hersh got inspired to pick up her guitar and compose a tune for her punk band, Throwing Muses.
So he made his own tape, with neighbors, family members and rock-star friends, like Simon Kirke, the Bad Company drummer, who composed a tune, "All My Friends Live in the Woods".
Mr Feng was reportedly so excited by the appearance of Mr Jiang's poem (his third published this year) that he composed a tune to go with it and tried it out on a class of six-year-olds.
However, she started to compose her own melodies after her staff had failed to compose a tune for "M" that appealed to her.
After you choose a username, you're dropped into a digitized page of sheet music where you can select an instrument and move up and down the bar lines to compose a tune.
Compose a tune on Garage Band or just on a piano, guitar, etc.
This Saturday sees the world premiere of The Great Enormo, Michael Rosen's "Grand Festival Overture for three vacuum cleaners, one floor polisher, four rifles and orchestra", when he will be inviting the audience to help compose a theme tune for Mr Enormo Biggins Greatt Fun Park, in a show that is both a children's interactive guide to the orchestra and a whirlwind tour of musical history.
He also composed a theme tune, which was used as an alternative to Space's "Female of the Species".
I can think of it as far more like composing, like hearing a tune and composing a piece of music, if you like, than I ever could in the days of typewriters.
