​​​​​​​Eric Lacy Music

I consider myself to be a pure composer. In other words, my work is devoted entirely to the act of creating music.

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The music I compose forms internally, not passively, but through active imagination. I don’t hear full chords or harmonies in a traditional sense. Instead, I sense harmonic direction, texture, counterpoint, and motion. It’s a mental and emotional landscape I shape in real time as I look at the empty score.

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My unique compositional process is entirely internal. I don’t use sketches, improvisation, or instruments, as most do. Instead, I compose directly to full orchestral score using my mind and inner ear to guide the process. I imagine each musical gesture, line, and timbral layer before writing it down. From the very beginning, I innately orchestrated my works without prior training, guided by an intuitive sense of color and structure. This approach is not about speed or efficiency—though I often work very quickly—but about clarity. The music exists in full form within my imagination before it is ever heard externally.

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The process begins with the first notes I place together in my mind. From there, I begin to imagine the other instruments of the ensemble surrounding them. The piece unfolds through intuition and attention, one decision shaping the next.

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I compose because I’m curious about what I might create next. Each new piece is a challenge to grow, to push myself further, and to refine my abilities. I always want my next composition to be better than the one before. That pursuit of forward motion and internal evolution is what compels me to continue composing.

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While music is a means of social communication, I don’t expect listeners to hear a fixed message in my music. Each piece has its own emotional or conceptual identity. I believe interpretation will vary, not only from person to person, but from one listening to the next. My goal is not to control that experience, but to create something vivid enough that it invites a listener to experience it for the first time—again and again.