Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[Karl Henning]

Dunno if the link works . . . it cues me to sign up, and I've not troubled to . . . .

[Guido]

It does work, but you do need to sign up. And it looks charming!  What's wrong with good old mediafire?

[Luke]

There's a question! - only that for some reason it won't upload a thing on my computer. It's been that way for months. A problem at my end, certainly, but I can't figure out what.

Thanks for looking!

[Luke]

....but thanks for the prompt to relook at the issue, which I haven't even bothered doing for a while. And this time, first time round - I try a different browser, and everything is fine:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qgznij53ne9qp4n

There's your link to Le Siffleur!

[Kastchei]

I've just listened to Around Fern Hill a couple of times and I really like it! Very good piano writing, expressive and always interesting.
Congratulations!

[Luke]

OK, now that I have Mediafire working for me again, I've just started from scratch. Here is the link to a folder with my stuff in it. Far from everything there yet, but help yourself to what there is. It's all been put up here before, I think, or most of it anyway.

http://www.mediafire.com/?csk09rcncctsj

I will repost this link from time to time, and will keep on putting things in there - there is much more to go



BTW, everyone check out Rappy's compositions. They are really something else!  I mention it only because he doesn't have as much comment on his thread as he deserves. I feel quite shamed by the things he has been putting on there recently.

[Luke]

I've just listened to Around Fern Hill a couple of times and I really like it! Very good piano writing, expressive and always interesting.
Congratulations!

Thank you very much for listening! I appreciate it, and your kind words. Very glad you enjoyed it - it seems to be going down surprisingly well for such an odd little piece.   

[Jo re mi]

Got any news, Luke?

[Karl Henning]

(* clinks the glass *)

[Luke]

Got any news, Luke?

1. Yes, you know I have! And glass-chinking was indeed required, Karl.   
2. My laptop is broken, and my internet access at work is limited, so I can't post here easily at the moment. Hence my protracted silence. But I still love you all and will return asap!   
3. I am writing a piece at the moment. It ought to be finished in the next few days. It will appear here then. It's the usual Ottevanger fare, but I like it.   

[Karl Henning]

Huzzah!

[Luke]

'tis only a piano scribbling of my normal sort, and who knows if it will be any good. I'm too close to it to tell at the moment. It has my usual moments of increasing complexity, tuplets building up into ever-bigger nests, the whole shebang-charade 

[North Star]

Excellent news, Luke! (apart from the laptop - but then again, you'll get more work done now )
Listening to Around Fern Hill again, beautiful stuff, I especially like the increasing dissonance.

[Karl Henning]

Our very own unreconstructed tuplet-nester!

[Karl Henning]

You realize, this originated as a tool for editing Wagner scores and libretti.

Blast from the past . . . .

[Cato]

"Use the force, Luke!"

"Pumpkin seeds of the soul
Sailor drifting toward the land
Locked doors beckon to the air
Or err to humidify
The authorities in the dank blank
Slates of the soul's highest fears."

There!  Now get to work!   0:)

[Cato]

"Use the force, Luke!"

"Pumpkin seeds of the soul
Sailor drifting toward the land
Locked doors beckon to the air
Or err to humidify
The authorities in the dank blank
Slates of the soul's highest fears."

There!  Now get to work!   0:)

Well, perhaps I scared The Good Luke into 6 more weeks of hibernation!   

[Karl Henning]

I've got to snaffle up a phone card and leave him some vx-mail : )

[Jo re mi]

Phone? Pah! You may as well try to ring John the Baptist in the wilderness. I'll give him a kick up the arts this weekend when hopefully he'll prove that he's not trans-substantiated into pure myth and show up at the ancestral home.

[Karl Henning]

. . . Pah! You may as well try to ring John the Baptist in the wilderness.

Yes, that complexion of the matter has not escaped me : )

I'll give him a kick up the arts this weekend when hopefully he'll prove that he's not trans-substantiated into pure myth and show up at the ancestral home.

Excellent! Spare no vim in the kick (as it were)!