if any of you, my faithful readers, have been wondering if counterpoint ever works its way into contemporary modern music, here's a good example ( Read more... )

...But I shall live to see their healing ( Read more... )

Anyway, I jsut finished reading Flatland. It's a book narrated by a square which lives on a two-dimensional plane. The first have is a description of how life on a two dimensional plane, inhabited by shapes in geometrical figures, works, and the nature of their society, daily life and so on. It also explains how the plane itself and its two ( Read more... )

This is probably my longest entry ever. It is about Serial techniques, Time-point, and tempo-scales. Feel free to correct me if any of my theory is wrong -- this is all from memory ( Read more... )

Here are some thoughts one Music for Other Lifeforms ( Read more... )

I finsihed the trinary music paper
I handed in the trinary paper.
I got back the trinary paper.
I got 100% on the trinary paper.
hahaa.
And she didn't get the whole trinary thing... oh well.
lol
Now I have to do 3 three page research papers. these ones... will be more difficult.

oooo I'm so close to done I can taste it

finished my paper on trinary music ( Read more... )

OK. this is crazy, but I think it will work ( Read more... )

the tinary piece is coming along.. at this point I think I'll only write, and write about, the first movement.. which is the wierdest and most complicated ( Read more... )

my trinary music thing is becoming hideously complicated. And it's not even done. At some point, there should be 27 (i.e. three cubed) distinct musical elements occuring simultaneously. Of course, this is part of the movement which is not to be performed, by design, so no one would ever actually hear this. But I'm writing it out anyway, cause I ( Read more... )