Ed in Chicago, Peter in Connecticut
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, like having a client like your work on the first try... except maybe a client liking your work on THREE SEPARATE TUNES, ALL ON THE FIRST TRY!
I just had a meeting with Ed Boon -- yes, THE Ed Boon, Mr. Mortal Kombat his-own-bad-self (for the record: the nicest guy you'll ever meet). I played him the three tunes I'm working on for the main fighting game -- all very different approaches to go with the different levels. He totally dug them all (YESSS!!!!!!). This was actually a huge relief, because lately I've really been stretching the palette of the musical styles in the game...
In other news this morning, I had a little chat with Peter Hadley, director at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (not Ohio!). A very nice guy as well -- his ensemble is going to be performing Chaos Theory and TranZendental Danse of Joi this Spring. We got onto the subject of BCM... what DOES it mean? His theory was "Band Composer Masterworks"... an excellent deduction, but not it. The other one he came up with was "Because Creativity Matters", which I like even better. That is, however, also very wrong.
There's been a lot of speculation as to the real meaning. It's even been a hot topic on the BCM forum... look at it this way, if we told you all now, we'd miss out on all this creativity.
(I will tell you, quite honestly, that no one has yet to guess correctly...)
I just had a meeting with Ed Boon -- yes, THE Ed Boon, Mr. Mortal Kombat his-own-bad-self (for the record: the nicest guy you'll ever meet). I played him the three tunes I'm working on for the main fighting game -- all very different approaches to go with the different levels. He totally dug them all (YESSS!!!!!!). This was actually a huge relief, because lately I've really been stretching the palette of the musical styles in the game...
In other news this morning, I had a little chat with Peter Hadley, director at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (not Ohio!). A very nice guy as well -- his ensemble is going to be performing Chaos Theory and TranZendental Danse of Joi this Spring. We got onto the subject of BCM... what DOES it mean? His theory was "Band Composer Masterworks"... an excellent deduction, but not it. The other one he came up with was "Because Creativity Matters", which I like even better. That is, however, also very wrong.
There's been a lot of speculation as to the real meaning. It's even been a hot topic on the BCM forum... look at it this way, if we told you all now, we'd miss out on all this creativity.
(I will tell you, quite honestly, that no one has yet to guess correctly...)
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Oh, my! I've been blogged!!
Actually, my guess was Band Consortium Masterworks, as that was who commissioned Eric Whitacre's "Noisy Wheels of Joy" (another piece WesWinds is doing this semester).
Anyway, it made my day to hear from you, Jim. And thanks so much helping me get my hands on the score and parts. I would love to register some kind of protest to JW Pepper and Hal Leonard. We need an equivalent to CD Baby for printed music. Which reminds me! Why don't you have both CDs available at CD Baby?
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