When one eat the cake one doesn't necessarily need to know what are the ingredients.
As a composer I am always trying to be honest, not only with my work, but also with what I am transmitting to others. It is not just a matter of being perfect, showing how perfect the analysis of my work is, or how beautiful harmony and rhythm can be. It is a matter of being honest with myself and giving others the reality of composing - how challenging can be, what are the problemas that may, or may not, appear, and what the possible tools to contour those problems.
As a composer doing autoethnography as research, I want, on the one hand, to demonstrate other composers that it is possible to talk about their process of composition and its compositions in a genuine and appropriate way. On the other hand, I want to establish an attitude where I can be able to discuss the way composers have been talking about their own and other composers’s work. As Bério suggest a "balance must be maintained, at whatever cost, between recognition of conventions, stylistic references, expectations, and, on the other hand, the concrete experience of giving a new life to an object of knowledge.”