October

double densed uncounthest hour of allbleakest age with a bad of wind and a barrel of rain

double densed uncounthest hour of allbleakest age with a bad of wind and a barrel of rain is an in-progress piece for resonators and brass. I’m keeping a composition log here as I work on it.

There are sure to be many detours. Getting it in shape might involve:

Thursday October 17th

A game for this weekend:

This is the game we’ll play in three steps:

  1. Listen to the sounds around you. Listen to the tones. Listen to the other sounds.
  2. When you have the sounds around you in your mind, add a tone to them on your instrument. Don’t worry about playing too much, or too little. Breathe and listen.
  3. Let the tone emerge and unfold in a long and comfortable exhalation.

If you’re playing a pitch pipe:

If you’ve brought your own instrument:

If you’ve brought your own instrument and “concert pitch” is nonsense:

Above all: don’t worry too much about it and listen to the sounds that happen in the space.

Saturday October 12th

Woah, I missed September! That’s what I get for leaving the house, I guess.

I’ve been giving astrid a tour of the real world, which has been fun and sometimes disheartening when everything breaks down. I was sorta hoping I was through the worst of the showstopper bugs, but I am discovering a class of new bugs that are emerging when I use more than a small handful of instruments together. I’m doing a poor job of tracking these, but briefly:

That last one I discovered while working on an accompaniment program for an outdoor concert here in Winona happening next weekend. If I can get it stable enough to run for about an hour tonight I’ll be happy, since it only will really need to run for about 20 minutes.

I just read an interview with one of the Mego founders who IIRC said something along the lines of computers became less interesting when they stopped crashing. (Maybe this was Peter Rehberg actually!) I don’t really have an opinion about it right now though because I’d just like this program to stop crashing, really.


(oops I missed September!)

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