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May 08, 2007 03:21

Seventeen tone piano project phase three Done.  It seemed to be all my friends/people who humor me and are humored by me, and exactly one person I didn't know.  Funtimes.  Half-assery, in my opinion.  I was mister jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, playing borderline-passable slide whistle, udderbot, trombone, and piano, and being a silly ( Read more... )

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Bravo! radio2io May 8 2007, 11:32:32 UTC
Ha, even the complaints are half-assed, which I take as a good sign. There aren't a lot of available gestures of gratitude for sharing in an event -- bowing works when you don't have a mic to say thanks over applause, though it does feel weird to bow to friends. There's the communist gesture of applauding those who are applauding you ( ... )

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Re: Bravo! diefungi May 10 2007, 07:16:15 UTC
Noise Monsters! Ha!

(It did happen! http://www.archive.org/details/seventeenTPP_03)

Otherwise, I'm giddily speechless in the face of this comment.

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Re: Bravo! radio2io May 10 2007, 08:53:39 UTC
Wow, Jacob, that concert is a substantial offering. Regarding safety nets, which I've listened to once, what a weird thing! I was baffled by what Elliot was doing -- but I think I figured it out: I thought I was so cool with the laconic notation, but I think Elliot read it as single systems rather than simultaneous lines -- so that there was a spell of guitar, then of kazoo & tin, and then hihat & kick -- is that possible? so that instead of mostly short bursts he had spacious interruptions?
The x's of roughness and $'s of smarminess were surprisingly clear. The harmonics were a surprise.
I'm too tired to write more now, but this recording is really helpful for thinking of what to tweak, and it shoes the degree of committed presence you all put into something the reasons for which may have seemed ... obscure.

The other when you put up a post with 'fonala' as you current music, and did a search and found only websites in Hungarian

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Re: Bravo! radio2io May 10 2007, 10:50:38 UTC
No, Elliot was doing what was written (listening with headphones helps). Part of what was baffling was the simultaneity of divergent tempi.

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Hooray! anonymous May 8 2007, 12:47:31 UTC

Hooray for Jacob!!!! Hooray for Mark!!!! Across the ocean, on top of an alp, I am jumping up and down and waving my arms, whether or not you are bowing. You can't stop me. Ha! so There!

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sanura May 8 2007, 16:55:09 UTC
Okay, well, I'm pretty sensitive to composers' concerts' half-assery, having been a party to it myself (and not just as a performer), and I detected very little. So be comforted that if you half-assed phase three, it didn't look or sound that way.

Regarding the waving of arms, I will mention that I actually have had thoughts about you and that before. In the rehearsals for Elliot's madrigal, it was a relief when you took charge of starting and/or continuing tempo. You are exceedingly clear, and you have a very good feel for showing people how to follow you. In fact, better than any other student I can think of. You don't have any of the pretentious mannerisms of a conducting student, or the floopdefloops of someone who doesn't know exactly what he's doing and has to cover. You have rhythm, unlike most of the population of Shepherd, and you communicate it intuitively. So, I couldn't see every armwave from directly behind you last night, but the piece certainly went well, as far as I could tell, you didn't look stupid.

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diefungi May 10 2007, 07:21:04 UTC
OK. Allow me to raise my standards for futuretimes, but by no means tolerate my gesture of self-flagellation! :)

We do have a 31-tone timing problem. I intend to refuse positions of leadership when not accompanied - and implied - by authority based in expert knowledge. I plan to invite the composition not only of exercises but of micro-social structures that will aid rehearsal.

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