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Comment by Riccardo Massari Spiritini on October 14, 2009 at 10:15am

... perhaps it started just when I was 9 or 10 years old, listening to the birds of the garden on the other side of the bridge of my hometown Verona...
Imitating the sounds I heard with my mouth, then playing anything I found in my house... Those things come down from the Universe... like Chris said.
Then come the grown-up world, professions and politic life... but I feel always the same, a child enchanted by the Universe with (especially) all those sounds...
What does it says? nothing, absolutely nothing, We do not say nothing, we are , I suppose, a reverberation of what is around us. All the best artists, poets and creators have been this. Some people is simply more incredible then others...
that we call genius... they have just a better Antenna and a better Transducer , ha ha...cheers friends!
Riccardo

Comment by Steve Moshier on September 17, 2009 at 4:25am

Immediate concern for the 'audience'; obvious gestures for comprehension; gestural form.

Comment by Brian Kauth on July 15, 2009 at 12:12pm

Not being a composer, I guess I'll tackle these questions from my experience as a performer. I honestly never thought about being a "serious" classical musician until half-way through my undergraduate studies. I played guitar in a heavy metal band for a little while and listened to nothing but that kind of music. Then I developed an affection for jazz music, and decided that I wanted to split my time between jazz guitar and jazz saxophone. When I first heard Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony, Mozart's Requiem Mass, and Holst's "The Planets," I decided that classical music wasn't so bad. Then my interests turned to the classical possibilities of the saxophone, and almost a dozen years later, here I am!

I don't think that my sound comes from my equipment so much as it comes from my "inner concept" of what I think sounds good. That, coupled with what I've been given anatomically, creates "my" sound. It exists because it simply does. Hopefully, the music that I play with "my" sound communicates what the composer has said in the tones and rhythms that they've used in their music.

Comment by Steve Moshier on July 2, 2009 at 2:05pm

Yeah Jeff, before I got my Master's I never thought of being a composer either, I just wanted to play drums in a jazz group.

Comment by Jeff Harrington on July 2, 2009 at 1:25pm

High school fantasies of rock stardom ala Keith Emerson and the addiction to New Orleans funk music (in junior high school I never thought of becoming a composer, I just wanted to play music in a funk band) and then the discovery of Carter, Ives, Varese and Stravinsky, etc.

Comment by adam kondor on July 2, 2009 at 6:20am

Leave a message before the last beep

Comment by adam kondor on July 2, 2009 at 5:58am

We are present in the world now, for a while, never before, never after...
acting, witnessing...
we are here now, together...
we're presenting our presence for each-other...
do we have to represent anything?
or express?

go on...

Comment by Steve Moshier on July 2, 2009 at 1:27am

Where did that come from?
'Aggressive' Minimalism, 19th Century Romanticism, Downtown Politics, D. Scarlatti, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Beethoven, CRMO, to name a few.

Why does 'it' exist?
To satisfy my passion to create musically for myself and an 'audience'.

What does 'it' say?
Hopefully, many, many, many, thoughts and ideas.

And that's from one reflective moment...

Comment by Christopher Stewart on July 1, 2009 at 8:35pm

Hmmm... seems like a tough one, even Maestro Moshier has yet to comment... will venture something... ;o)

Where did that come from?
I would guess that it comes from that same continuum which spawned the universe, that non-locus that couldn't be before the so-called Big Bang, time, space, and all that stuffy stuff...

Why does 'it' exist?
And I would guess that it exists for the same reason that all the stuffy stuff mentioned above exists...

What does 'it' say?
I don't know how to put that one into words... I suggest going to my page, locating the music player, and clicking on the play button... ;o)

Blessings,
Chris