wow i'm sleepy now but

[solarbird]

Just for the record: a little room of people playing your music for an hour and a half? Kinda awesome.

I need me some more of that.

Now I need a nap. But instead, it's time to cook dinner. Foo.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Hey, it was good music. It made sense to both of us. Looking forward to seeing what a full score looks like, which is where you seem to be going with it...

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Well, way cool, congratulations are in order ^_^

It had not sounded, from your progress reports, that you had had anywhere near as much music written: did the assembled multitudes simply take it and run with it in new directions?

Anyway, sounds like fun, would have made up for the cold weather some, anyway.

[solarbird]

Oh, no. Mostly teaching one song, and then spending some time throwing out some of the other songs to get reactions and see which I should arrange out for the group.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

the thing that totally blows me away is when i perform and the audience *sings along*. with stuff i wrote. the mind purely boggles.

glad you are having a rewarding time getting in touch with your music :)

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Ahh, okay, that makes sense now. Good luck with it, hey?

If we can get the time slot sorted out, we may have a chance to play with a Kay Sonograph the latter part of the week before Yule -- there is one down south of here around Tacoma, and access is possible (it really is a time issue, though, right now). The Kay allows analogue waveform analysis, via various plot modes in the F-T domain.

Very much want to get some reference samples of sung and spoken pitches, and the cross-play between pitch and timbre. Much easier to do vocally than instrumentally: the voice, after all, can be shaped in ways that one cannot easily do with most constructed instruments.

Need an analogue analytical system like the Kay, because we still haven't figured out who is doing this stuff in software (well, okay, there's one researcher/composer in Manhattan but we aren't quite ready for that working session, yet, atho' we do have an open go-to there); so far, nobody's actively playing with variable-base tonal systems. This gets way out there, fast, and there are simply limits to what can be done without grant support.

Anyway, it is fun. After all, what's the point if it isn't?

[solarbird]

the thing that totally blows me away is when i perform and the audience *sings along*. with stuff i wrote. the mind purely boggles.
do want. ^_^

glad you are having a rewarding time getting in touch with your music :)
The very concept of my music is ... I don't even know the words. And I kinda know a lot of words.