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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:59:34 -0500
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- From: "Joseph D. McMahon" <xrjdm@CALVIN.GSFC.NASA.GOV>
- Subject: Re: PHIL COMP
- Comments: To: EMUSIC-L@american.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9212211840.AA11950@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov> from "Robert Depin"
- at Dec 21, 92 11:26:00 am
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- Robert Depin writes:
- > I'm not completely sold on the current notation system, but it's all
- > we've. It's universal expandable, and consistent. I personally hate music
- > which I can only hear. It iterates me that alot of these "New Age" artist
- > don't notate their music. Thus, I have to rely on my hear to understand how
- > they created the harmonies, counterpoint, etc.
- Well, that's what I did when I composed it... :-)
-
- > The biggest advantage to notation is for performance. Your system
- > guarentees that only you can perform your music properly. I personally like
- > to hear my music performed by other people and see the audience's reactions.
- > It allows me to step back and become the listener. Taped music has very
- > little acceptentance as a performance meduim. This was a problem never
- > overcome by music concrete. Music is both aural and visual when performed
- > live.
- I respect this point of view, but I don't happen to agree with it. I am not in
- a position where I am an "accepted" composer (by which I mean there are people
- willing to perform my pieces). I do my work to tape because that is the
- easiest way for me to get it from my hands to a lot of people's ears. Were I
- able to dump my day job and perform full-time, I probably would schedule
- concerts (and hope people showed up).
-
- Could you define "properly" for me? For Metlay, I know, properly means "with
- the exact same equipement because that's what can produce the proper timbres".
- For me, some of it is dependent on timbres, other stuff isn't.
-
- >
- > A musician makes Music, a composer CREATES Music.
- >
- And an improviser does both. It's my socially-unacceptable upbringing in jazz.
- :-) :-) :-)
-
- --- Joe M.
-