Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[Guido]

Ok. Hope whatever it is heals itself soon - this place is soooooo boring at the moment - not at all condusive to efficient procrastinating.

Flute and Piano, aye? Never forget Feldman's warning:

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

Does this mean the cello piece has stalled too? I might just need to compose my own!

Finally, apologies for the word sirrah - apparently its a disrespectful term - I just remember it from Shakespeare (Richard III), but then remembered that he was mocking someone with it.

[karlhenning]

. . . I'm working on a piece for flute and piano (don't ask why) . . . .

(I claim a colleague's prerogative to fly in the face of direct request.)

Why?

[DavidRoss]

I'm working on a piece for flute and piano (don't ask why), and it's going nicely, though it's rather stalled right now.

Perhaps the missing guitar part is the reason it's stalled...?

[sul G]

Guido, no the cello sonata hasn't stalled. It's just as I said, as is my usual way of working - first the exciting moment when the shape of the piece arrives, then a long period where the thing gestates. I fully expected this gap between inspiration and perspiration to happen!

But in the meantime less pondered-upon pieces appear, such as the sonata I wrote in April (which I still think is one of the very best things I've done) and this flute piece (of which the little that is written pleases me quite a bit).

[karlhenning]

Bene, bene.

[Guido]

Excellent news. Well I look forward to hearing/seeing as and when!

[Lethevich]

I stumbled in and just gave Sonata II a listen. I can't really say anything helpful, but it was great and I was very thankful that it wasn't just a miniature - it would've left me wanting more after the moody start. Beyond that it is beguiling in how much ground it covers its modest duration, with deceptively economical means.

Have you thought about uploading your stuff to last.fm? It might take a while, but eventually some of its massive userbase will stumble across it (they like free music), and hopefully spread it around. Also, as so many people use the site, the chances of distribution are more likely than filehost style sites - assuming that this is a priority rather than just private sharing.

[Luke]

Should I ttt this? Seems little reason to when there is little or nothing to report. But still, it saddens me to see the little fella languishing down at the foot of the page!

[DavidW]

Yo Luke hello!  Hello!  Hello!

[Luke]

Hello!  Nice to be back....

[DavidW]

Nice to have you back, it's been a few years, for me at least...

[Luke]

That long? really? Blimey!

[DavidW]

Well when you were active, I wasn't and vica versa.

Actually I wasn't active on this forum that much until oh July.  And it's been like that since summer of '06.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I hope that before soon you will have something to report, Luke.

[Luke]

Enforced writing.....nothing too exciting, nothing in the least challenging, just the annual something-sweet-and-full-of-parallel-thirds-for-the-girls-to-sing-at-Christmas. But at least it's making me put pencil to paper for the first time since April.

(maybe here's the place to say a general - I've been in a such a nasty place, guys, beyond imagining or description, and I still am, a lot of the time - apologies to those of you who I should have contacted, or who contacted me with no reply (as yet). It's just more than I can bear, most of the time. Please indulge me a little longer. Being back at GMG is a good sign; being able to simply talk music, even if only in a few posts as yet, feels just wonderful, like coming home. But I'm not there yet.)

[karlhenning]

Sounds like you need a little parallel-thirdage, right this very minute . . . .

Hang in there, mon cher!

[Luke]

I's a-hanging, Karl...

[karlhenning]

"Enforced parallel thirds" . . . and haven't we all been there? 

[Luke]

...pays the bills, Karl, pays the bills...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

(maybe here's the place to say a general - I've been in a such a nasty place, guys, beyond imagining or description, and I still am, a lot of the time - apologies to those of you who I should have contacted, or who contacted me with no reply (as yet). It's just more than I can bear, most of the time. Please indulge me a little longer. Being back at GMG is a good sign; being able to simply talk music, even if only in a few posts as yet, feels just wonderful, like coming home. But I'm not there yet.)

I haven't been here a lot either. I hope you'll get your spirit back soon, Luke.