RSS-ified
Due to popular demand (Steve and some anonymous other person), I have set up this blog so it will do an RSS feed. My thanks to Steve Bryant and John Mackey for helping me out with this.
To celebrate this new technological advancement, I thought I would follow the trend set by Mr. Newman and write about a few of the musical skeletons from my closet (there are dozens and dozens), which will never again see the light of day:
* My original arrangement of Moussorgsky's Hopak -- my first encounter with concert band orchestration... words cannot describe how horribly awful this version was. There are also 2 band pieces I wrote before Chaos Theory that no one will ever hear either, but I honestly don't remember the names of them...
* RUHE: Last Dance -- my first piece for chamber orchestra. There are sections of it that were pretty good, but really, it was just a hodge-podge of orchestration experiments and atonal meanderings... structurally, it didn't hold together at all... but I learned a ton by going through with it.
* is and if -- two movements from an unfinished string quartet. I hated coming up with titles (I still do, actually)... and the concept behind naming this one was a lot more "fartsy" than "artsy" (I just didn't realize it at the time). I had finished reading this great book called "Fist Stick Knife Gun", so I was going to name each movement based on the middle letters of each word -- "is", "tic", "if", and "un" (c'mon, work with me here) -- and call the whole piece "isticifun". Hey, I know it's stupid, but what do you expect from a guy who's publishing company is called AVSICTISM?!? Come to think of it, I came up with that name around the same time...
* Sketches of Rodin -- for solo harp. The whole experience was made worse by my ex-girlfriend, who brought her new boyfriend to the premiere performance. I could tell they thought the music sucked, and even then, I had to agree with them.
* "Untitled" (see I told you I hate coming up with titles) -- for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, 'cello and percussion. It was my first piece of contemporary concert music, and it got me a scholarship for grad school, but it was BAD, BAD, BAD.
(to be continued... some other time maybe...)
To celebrate this new technological advancement, I thought I would follow the trend set by Mr. Newman and write about a few of the musical skeletons from my closet (there are dozens and dozens), which will never again see the light of day:
* My original arrangement of Moussorgsky's Hopak -- my first encounter with concert band orchestration... words cannot describe how horribly awful this version was. There are also 2 band pieces I wrote before Chaos Theory that no one will ever hear either, but I honestly don't remember the names of them...
* RUHE: Last Dance -- my first piece for chamber orchestra. There are sections of it that were pretty good, but really, it was just a hodge-podge of orchestration experiments and atonal meanderings... structurally, it didn't hold together at all... but I learned a ton by going through with it.
* is and if -- two movements from an unfinished string quartet. I hated coming up with titles (I still do, actually)... and the concept behind naming this one was a lot more "fartsy" than "artsy" (I just didn't realize it at the time). I had finished reading this great book called "Fist Stick Knife Gun", so I was going to name each movement based on the middle letters of each word -- "is", "tic", "if", and "un" (c'mon, work with me here) -- and call the whole piece "isticifun". Hey, I know it's stupid, but what do you expect from a guy who's publishing company is called AVSICTISM?!? Come to think of it, I came up with that name around the same time...
* Sketches of Rodin -- for solo harp. The whole experience was made worse by my ex-girlfriend, who brought her new boyfriend to the premiere performance. I could tell they thought the music sucked, and even then, I had to agree with them.
* "Untitled" (see I told you I hate coming up with titles) -- for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, 'cello and percussion. It was my first piece of contemporary concert music, and it got me a scholarship for grad school, but it was BAD, BAD, BAD.
(to be continued... some other time maybe...)
2 Comments:
excuse my ignorance, but what's an RSS feed?
Real Simple Syndication. [link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29[/link]
Time to add it to the google homepage.
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