<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>https://ecency.com</link><image><url>https://ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:03:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ecency.com/@andysporring/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[It’s For Me To Say Goodbye To CreativeWorkhour]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s For Me To Say Goodbye To CreativeWorkhour Today, I canceled my membership in the CWH Discord server! I’m not going to go into detail about what has preceded this decision, but one thing is for sure:]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/it-s-for-me-to</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/it-s-for-me-to</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:38:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I Registered My 140 Composition]]></title><description><![CDATA[As of today, I have one hundred forty (140) compositions registered at STIM (Swedish Composers International Musicbureau). It's the organization that collects revenue from performances worldwide and pays]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/today-i-registered-my-140</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/today-i-registered-my-140</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:50:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmacwmKAb1y3UhP3skDzSKyw15SECZhfE1PWxBvzMpksp1/screenshot_2025_03_28_at_08.45.38.png" length="0" type="image/png"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Little Bundle Of Joy Turns One Year!]]></title><description><![CDATA[In April last year, my daughter Melissa told me they would get another dog. It made perfect sense as Ture the family's 12-year-old Yorkshireterrier is in his last years. She told me she was looking for]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/our-little-bundle-of-joy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/our-little-bundle-of-joy</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:00:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmPLmVH2R15SczWmBzKMMsxqxxudEerTjKJLKnTeSMye5o/img_6132.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Thoughts Halfway Through Composing A Symphony]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'll just start with a comparison: A composition for Piano solo contains of two staves, a stringquartet contains of four staves. My symphony contains of 37(!) staves. The instrumentation of the orchestra]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/some-thoughts-halfway-through-composing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/some-thoughts-halfway-through-composing</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:54:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmW6H4uBMKr8U6G2x8t7ptyihwh7BrVeyA7eiFKpzRA3Wa/image.png" length="0" type="image/png"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm Letting The Artist In Me Out!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I never knew that I would be able to call myself an artist, but that's what I am also, not 'only' a composer. And that is from one who during the school years almost didn't get a grade in art! So there's]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/i-m-letting-the-artist</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/i-m-letting-the-artist</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:47:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmYHzGEBRtdJGVnasg1LouWChMyKeEcgk5Tmw4ZmFsCzNP/foto_2024_01_03_060357.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composing A Piano Sonata For My Wife]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last year I started by composing a Piano Sonata for my wife Miriam to give her for her birthday. Miriam is a skilled pianist and educator, she also has perfect pitch so when she's in a choir it usually]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/composing-a-piano-sonata-for</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/composing-a-piano-sonata-for</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:33:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQma1eCJrcgigDsceSW7BQNKZs6kfTVa4rhyrZ6A5oe3gCV/image.png" length="0" type="image/png"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How To Be This Productive Composing Music?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently got a question (again) how it is possible to be this productive in composing music? I have since restarted my career as a composer composing more than nine hours of music. It's more than seventy]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/how-to-be-this-productive</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/how-to-be-this-productive</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:08:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmPHc6NXFuGTDySobNCstDbc4aMiPgp1Nz6HkMMnzJHiYv/2025_02_02_10.21.20.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[No title]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trying to find back to writing words also, not only music. #sporringmusic #cwh]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/qaw5guum7qzxdh3wkr3sje</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/qaw5guum7qzxdh3wkr3sje</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-193084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:09:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[My article on 'Im Memoriam', was composed to the memory of the souls lost and ...]]></title><description><![CDATA[... their families in Schoolshooting in Sweden.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/p6jggy6qi6w2zlbc4o3gko</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/p6jggy6qi6w2zlbc4o3gko</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-193084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:55:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing A Stringsextet Can Be Like Writing For Two String-trios]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes bravery to be a composer, I realize that now. But it has taken me fifty years to figure out that. The first composition, which was a Swedish folk tune called Vispolska from Ålsta, was]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/writing-a-stringsextet-can-be</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/writing-a-stringsextet-can-be</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:22:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmbzDBx7SbFWFXhXj9JwoMyVJdKiJFxUHj2gumnB5MNKpd/string_sextet_no_i_2025_.png" length="0" type="image/png"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composing For An Almost Impossible Combination]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today I'm going to write a little about my composition Danza - Stanza which is composed for what's called a Pierrot Ensemble. A Pierrot Ensemble consists of a Flute a Clarinet in Bb, a Violin, a Violoncello,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/composing-for-an-almost-impossible</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/composing-for-an-almost-impossible</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:01:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmagFrwAaUhG135YSQ4teCPhoDYvot6z9huk81w6DR2BTb/stanza_danza.png" length="0" type="image/png"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Narrative Of A Composer]]></title><description><![CDATA[This one takes a minute, or two to digest. Not because of length but because of content. There's one obvious narrative of sorts that the composer has in his palette. And that's first hand the music, but]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/the-narrative-of-a-composer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/the-narrative-of-a-composer</guid><category><![CDATA[cwh]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:25:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eF66tLjBPyC1jLK7ABMfZq5n8tD6SnpHJy4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How I handled my grief after the schoolshooting in Örebro, Sweden]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday the 4th of February 2025, the worst schoolshooting in Swedish history took place in the middle-sized city of Örebro, Ten people were killed by a person, who after the act committed suicide.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/how-i-handled-my-grief</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/how-i-handled-my-grief</guid><category><![CDATA[greif]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:16:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4i88GgaV8qiFkxbnGCXnHNbt8wcgAMNP6xb3BathK3hmP9Px34McZeCp1h8xC8TcZ1qRTBNH7tU89rqMHLqkgzJK1LJYc8BECawGDD1NmFD7dNzWk2kALnSa7G?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How My Restless Soul Has Feed My Creativity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image generated by the author using Copilot (Dall-E) @2024 I’m a restless soul, I have always been and will always be. I blame my upbringing where we moved 5 times before I moved out to live my own life.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/how-my-restless-soul-has-feed-my-creativity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/how-my-restless-soul-has-feed-my-creativity</guid><category><![CDATA[restless]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:59:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/FUkUE5bzkAZT3HzV5tJDiU2ik81PCd4JCyhWnRcDN8XJsVFY3UNB8DCQt7GryGjzmXQFuSTS1PLrQc8dcy3VXzbCjUjtGdWyWgnam3TH3rbzpKraGPmrBWMpskJXQekyAqbzwStSiaqE9CMGJ3zaQrg9di1mvzi8eHGA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just one week ago, I was yet again reminded of life’s frailty when the news broke out all over Facebook that my dear friend Johan had died in a house fire. 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But then there is #CreativeWorkHour, which is a sanctuary for all kinds of creatives. For me, it has boosted all my creative outlets to the max! Thanks @alessandrawhite 🥰]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/5qs1dpb7r2rg45n4xrib3o</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/5qs1dpb7r2rg45n4xrib3o</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-193084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:15:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Music On Soundclaud]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can find some of my music on Soundcloud. I have some of my compositions before the horrible hard drive crash uploaded there, and I recently uploaded three new tracks. More music will come on Spotify]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/my-music-on-soundclaud</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/my-music-on-soundclaud</guid><category><![CDATA[music]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:31:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epilogous II - For Organ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I grew up in a priest family, and part of that was to take part in parish events and go to church every Sunday. The exception was when you were sick, but otherwise, we children were demanded to be there.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/epilogous-ii-for-organ</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/epilogous-ii-for-organ</guid><category><![CDATA[organ]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solistice - A Clarinet Concertino]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I started to write Solistice, my first intention was to write a piece for solo clarinet and strings, and I saw it first as a practice to get back to composing again. But little by little, writing]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@andysporring/solistice-a-clarinet-concertino</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@andysporring/solistice-a-clarinet-concertino</guid><category><![CDATA[composition]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andysporring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:03:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCPw26HHvpSHwrQ97sfRqiPJhgu7zKFQWyhPf2tTCXvcNX9gPdi3Pt2XFUFVArJUNrjGctSCtJMYUG1eUrugodsQW41skC8ViCAkSdg4KgcaV5a1GC71s7SN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>