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sen_no_ongakuYesterday, Fireworks read Skyful of Junk. It went as well as I could have asked -- it's a bitch-hard piece, and I'm impressed they were able to get through it in one take. It's rocky and under tempo, but I they managed to get the spirit of it. I need to revise it some -- the first section needs a little more timbral and motivic variety, and parts of the third section are too cluttered -- even for a piece about Katamari Damacy.
Due to some unfortunate circumstances, Fireworks's guitarist hasn't yet arrived -- he was flying out of NY when the East Coast got hammered by a storm, and has been trying to get here for two days. This has thrown the workshop and rehearsal schedule all to hell.
This was fortunate for me, however. Because this morning's public reading had a lot of guitar pieces on it, they replaced those with most of the pieces from my workshop -- which means my piece was read again, in front of an audience this time, which was lots of fun. I got up on stage and talked about the piece and in what ways the game inspired me. It was still a struggle for them, but at least I have more recordings from which to patch something together.
After the reading, a few people told me that it wasn't until they heard about Katamari Damacy that they really got Skyful of Junk. I'm a little disappointed about that, since I want Skyful to stand on its own as a piece of music, separate from its extramusical associations; but at the same time, I'm happy to have written a piece that Katamari players think, "Oh, yeah, that's so it!" when they hear it.
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On another note, David Harrington, Artistic Director of the Kronos Quartet, came to speak to us today. And handed out his business card to all of us afterwards, asking us to send him music. I now have David Harrington's contact information.
Fucking sweet.
Due to some unfortunate circumstances, Fireworks's guitarist hasn't yet arrived -- he was flying out of NY when the East Coast got hammered by a storm, and has been trying to get here for two days. This has thrown the workshop and rehearsal schedule all to hell.
This was fortunate for me, however. Because this morning's public reading had a lot of guitar pieces on it, they replaced those with most of the pieces from my workshop -- which means my piece was read again, in front of an audience this time, which was lots of fun. I got up on stage and talked about the piece and in what ways the game inspired me. It was still a struggle for them, but at least I have more recordings from which to patch something together.
After the reading, a few people told me that it wasn't until they heard about Katamari Damacy that they really got Skyful of Junk. I'm a little disappointed about that, since I want Skyful to stand on its own as a piece of music, separate from its extramusical associations; but at the same time, I'm happy to have written a piece that Katamari players think, "Oh, yeah, that's so it!" when they hear it.
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On another note, David Harrington, Artistic Director of the Kronos Quartet, came to speak to us today. And handed out his business card to all of us afterwards, asking us to send him music. I now have David Harrington's contact information.
Fucking sweet.
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Date: 2005-07-02 01:19 am (UTC)