The Best education in Music

In an interview, famous movie director Stanley Kubrick’s shared a piece of valuable insight that stuck with me: “The best education in film is to make one.”

As a composer, I realized that this resonates just as powerfully in the world of music.

Like filmmaking, music is best understood through the act of creation. While studying theory, mastering an instrument, or analyzing iconic compositions lays the groundwork, I personally found that another dimension to music opened up to me when I actively started composing, producing, and performing my own music.

Each note or melody that I create is a step toward understanding the emotional and technical language of sound.

Creating music mirrors filmmaking in its demand for experimentation, collaboration, and perseverance. You learn to craft harmonies, manage recording tools, and translate emotions into sound, often failing and discovering along the way.

Whether it’s writing a song, producing a track, or improvising on stage, the act of creation transforms passive learning into active mastery.

Kubrick’s philosophy reminds us that the best way to truly know any art form, be it film or music, is to immerse ourselves in the process of making it.

Here is a work of music that I recently composed that resembles a baroque suite, it was lots of fun writing and performing it! Click here.

Have a great day,

Claudio.