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Paul H. Muller
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Who Have You Discovered at Random?
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Outsourcing Composition as Performance Art
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Name that Tune!: Nos. 29 & 30
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Transcribe
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Shorties
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Just now listening - thanks for pointing this out.
Reminds me of the Doonesbury comic strip where a programmer outsourced his own job to a guy in India, paying him 40% of his salary - then the programmer gets a second job and neither employer is wiser.
#29 by Lou Harrison?
No clue on #30....
Steve: the 'Twist & Shout' really gets your attention!
Bruce: Nice mix of piano and other sounds.
It is a fine piece. Helpful to have the advise of good musicians when writing like that!
Wow - where to start?
"Edge of a paradigm shift"? - nope we're fully into it.
"The music industry itself has been subsumed by corporate culture.." - Hardly. That part of the music business is circling the drain.
"..composers are at their wit’s ...
Glenn:
Fine work! Very evocative and great visuals.
Here is part of a B flat major scale, stretched out 8X
Paul Muller Scale Fragment
The scores are just at the top of the page, in .pdf format.
Thanks for posting these Jeff. Very interesting...
Like baseball - part of the fun is who should be traded, who is hitting or in a slump, how the line-up should be organized, second-guessing the manager, etc. All of these things require a certain level of engagement with the team.
I find music to be the ideal counterweight to the grind and frustrations of daily life. I play in an orchestra and for two hours a week we rehearse and the only thing I am focussed on is how to play the thing the way Mahler/Beethoven/Sibelius/ etc...
Seconded!
I've noticed that the smiling blonde in the match.com ad only appears after a comment by Jeff...
All true - acoustic instruments played by talented performers always add something intangable to the music.
But I wonder if we will adjust our esthetic to accomodate electronic sounds because acoustic performances will become scarcer. I know I'm ...
Reminds me of those giant mechanical computers IBM made in the '50s. Seems like microtuning is better handled electronically.
I guess you could make a lot of solo music with it, or play with re-tuned string instruments - but now you've gotta inve...
Mvt 01 - Dark, foreboding. Good use of instruments in the lower registers. Nice piano licks.
Mvt 05 - Bass drum and percussion very effective. Clarinet really stands out in a complicated texture. Just a hint of 'Concerto for Orchestra' in the flu...
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 4:44pm on November 19, 2009,
peter thoegersen said… - Thank you, Paul :)
- At 12:41pm on August 9, 2009,
Paul Hertz said… - Afraid not - it's an improv, and I didn't get the MIDI recorded [must do that in the future!].
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- Have a day job, play in the Cal Lutheran Univ Orchestra and write music for church.
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