excerpts from a london travelogue
(Yes, I went to UK Microfest 2, and it was bitchin'.)
(eavesdropping on the bus) "You don't know who's been usin' recycled paper..."
(at the airport) the sound of 125 nearly-identical green-t-shirted high-school dance-team girls yapping away
(overheard cell phone conversation on a train) "You shouldn't be addicted to someone, Simon. You're addicted to her like you're addicted to crack and heroin and alcohol."
freaking piccolo oboe! [Italian-made, in E-flat]
How fast is silence? (what is the tempo)
Wim Hoogewerf on composition: "In well-written compositions there should always be at least one quarter-tone guitar!"
(composer's guide to the bellophone) MALLETs soft to hard [rubber good!] one-stick tremolo! rub a la prayer bowl! doublestop one-hand range 5-notes. stop. mouth vibrato WTF?
James Wyness: Imagine "Microtonal music" pronounced in the most Scottish accent ever. Inimitable.
James Wyness describing a photograph from his slideshow: "that's me with a hat playing things"
one of James' scales: kyai udan arum: 1/1 16/15 7/6 4/3 22/15 47/30 9/5 2/1
Lee [Ferguson] imagined joy in tiny instruments which sound very very low.
note to self: make a standing list of my needs and offers. make a list: my regrets from a future.
endings are trouble. (later:) again, how to end - most pieces should never end, or never begin
I want to have a conversation with the passacaglia.
On listening to Luigi Ceccarelli's "Birds" for bass clarinet & tape(sample here) : HOT DAYM! (five minutes later) WOW
ad seen in the subway: "We're here to make advertising better. (Not better advertising. Sorry.)" <-- what means this??
saw a small fox at St. Paul's Cathedral.
J. A. Martin Salinas: magician by day, composer and builder of 96-tone conic bellophone by night!
(composed but never uttered sentences:) "I'm really impressed with you! Let's spend some life together?"
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I think I spent more time listening to automated voices (on the train and such) than to live ones. Unreal. London is walking down a narrow street with five-story buildings lining it. London is trying to train yourself to look right as you cross the street. London is busy and monied and thus as normal as can be.
(still stuck!)
(eavesdropping on the bus) "You don't know who's been usin' recycled paper..."
(at the airport) the sound of 125 nearly-identical green-t-shirted high-school dance-team girls yapping away
(overheard cell phone conversation on a train) "You shouldn't be addicted to someone, Simon. You're addicted to her like you're addicted to crack and heroin and alcohol."
freaking piccolo oboe! [Italian-made, in E-flat]
How fast is silence? (what is the tempo)
Wim Hoogewerf on composition: "In well-written compositions there should always be at least one quarter-tone guitar!"
(composer's guide to the bellophone) MALLETs soft to hard [rubber good!] one-stick tremolo! rub a la prayer bowl! doublestop one-hand range 5-notes. stop. mouth vibrato WTF?
James Wyness: Imagine "Microtonal music" pronounced in the most Scottish accent ever. Inimitable.
James Wyness describing a photograph from his slideshow: "that's me with a hat playing things"
one of James' scales: kyai udan arum: 1/1 16/15 7/6 4/3 22/15 47/30 9/5 2/1
Lee [Ferguson] imagined joy in tiny instruments which sound very very low.
note to self: make a standing list of my needs and offers. make a list: my regrets from a future.
endings are trouble. (later:) again, how to end - most pieces should never end, or never begin
I want to have a conversation with the passacaglia.
On listening to Luigi Ceccarelli's "Birds" for bass clarinet & tape(sample here) : HOT DAYM! (five minutes later) WOW
ad seen in the subway: "We're here to make advertising better. (Not better advertising. Sorry.)" <-- what means this??
saw a small fox at St. Paul's Cathedral.
J. A. Martin Salinas: magician by day, composer and builder of 96-tone conic bellophone by night!
(composed but never uttered sentences:) "I'm really impressed with you! Let's spend some life together?"
----
I think I spent more time listening to automated voices (on the train and such) than to live ones. Unreal. London is walking down a narrow street with five-story buildings lining it. London is trying to train yourself to look right as you cross the street. London is busy and monied and thus as normal as can be.
(still stuck!)