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« Reply #270 on: 18:46:22, 15-11-2008 »

I enjoyed the 'speculative', and yes perhaps 'temporary', nature of several of the more recent pieces on the CD you gave me. I haven't had chance to listen to most of them more than once yet, and might have more to say when I do, but for now: don't worry. If the piano piece does get premiered and you then decide it needs more layers or whatever, that's not a disaster. One of the disadvantages of the 'premiere culture' in new music is that people are obsessed with getting a piece right first time, and then moving on to the next one. It's a sort of amnesia. I'm not saying you shouldn't write new pieces, but on the contrary, write as many and as quickly as you feel comfortable doing, let them build a life without you, and don't be scared to draw them back into the fold for the occasional tweak if you think it would help (like a parent occasionally helping a grown-up son or daughter).
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« Reply #271 on: 19:00:45, 15-11-2008 »

Thank you.
I actually completely agree with what you say about continual maintenance of scores, and one of the things that I really felt I learned at Darmstadt was that a piece is most effective when it's been written with feedback from a performer (and I've talked to various people about the need to maintain scores rather than coming up with a final 'perfect' version).
But it feels like I'm going against my training to some extent. I've had the whole 'professionalism' talk on a number of occasions, where young composers are told of the importance of making sure that everything they present to a performer is correct, unambiguous and on time. Conversely I've always tried to encourage my students to experiment with workshop situations rather than viewing it as a performance and a recording. It's a slightly unsettled time for me, with a lot of teaching and a lot of composition having to be done in a very short space of time, and this has probably more to do with my uncertainty than anything else.
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« Reply #272 on: 23:20:38, 15-11-2008 »

... and just now I think I've finally worked out what I'm actually going to do on Thursday night. It will take a bit of work and I've no idea when I'll have time to do the programming but it's a good (I think) idea and it'll work pretty well. It's for piano and electronics and it's called KATASMAGORIA and it's largely improvised.
I'll be at the piano, but there will be a pre-recorded track spreading around the 8-speaker set-up and getting louder the whole time, and a MaxMSP programme picking up fragments of the piano and looping them, moving them around the space, slowly to start off with but getting faster as time goes on. The patch will probably have to be cheap and nasty and thrown together sometime on Thursday morning but that might be interesting in itself.
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