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[Cato]

Columbus to Boston via Milwaukee? Screwy! 

Thanks for the write-up. Next best thing to being there.


Sarge

I was once routed from Los Angeles to Toledo via Pittsburgh!         And it was the cheapest option!

Glad to read that the Ohio trip has catalyzed Karl's ideas for new work: we talked a bit about instrumentation for the cantata with my poem The Crystalline Ship.  Karl is still thinking of a recorder and flute accompaniment, which would indeed fit the nature of the text.

[Karl Henning]

Either need a less flaky recorderist, or need to figure out how to de-flake this 'un.

[Karl Henning]

I was once routed from Los Angeles to Toledo via Pittsburgh!         And it was the cheapest option!

Aye, my return flight was with Frontier, whose hub (I suppose) is Milwaukee.  It was both a cost efficiency, and when I wanted to return to the Town of the Pulse.  I almost never travel the day before Thanksgiving! — and I wanted to be back on the ground, and sipping hot Oolong with the missus, before the mass migration started.

[Karl Henning]

Well, I may possibly have finished the first of the two-cl bagatellerillos.

[Karl Henning]

Well, I may possibly have finished the first of the two-cl bagatellerillos.

Yes, I rather think so. And a virtual acquaintance has already asked if it will work for clarinet & cello.

Oh! Cannot attach a file, seemingly. Another reason to sort out the subscription ...

[Karl Henning]

Started N° 2

[Karl Henning]

And some more N° 2 work this morning.  Just having fun writing;  must be all right.

[petrarch]

And some more N° 2 work this morning.  Just having fun writing;  must be all right.

Have you ever composed anything for tape or electroacoustic music? How do you feel about it? Just curious.

[Karl Henning]

Not proper composing in that (those, really) media, no.  I did some hands-on puttering at UVa (where they had quite a dinosaur of an early synthesizer, before Judith Shatin updated the electronic music studio there) and UB (where Peter Otto essentially rebuilt the e. studio ... there we worked with a real-time medium called Max).

I've found it interesting, to be sure, but I haven't felt that it's "my desk," you might say.

[Karl Henning]

Yet more N° 2 work this morning.  More at the blog.

[Karl Henning]

Is it very strange of me, do you suppose, that I can write music of my own while seated in a restaurant which has pop music playing? I had almost said in the background, but actually it was a notch or two too loud to be considered strictly as background.

I didn't even think of it until I stepped out the door onto the relative quiet of the street.

[ibanezmonster]

Is it very strange of me, do you suppose, that I can write music of my own while seated in a restaurant which has pop music playing? I had almost said in the background, but actually it was a notch or two too loud to be considered strictly as background.

I didn't even think of it until I stepped out the door onto the relative quiet of the street.

Strange, but good.

[Karl Henning]

Aye, a strange I can live with.

[TheGSMoeller]

Is it very strange of me, do you suppose, that I can write music of my own while seated in a restaurant which has pop music playing? I had almost said in the background, but actually it was a notch or two too loud to be considered strictly as background.

I didn't even think of it until I stepped out the door onto the relative quiet of the street.

Do you have perfect pitch, Karl? If so, I'm sure that helps. I don't, but my brother does.
I always need my trusty piano, or recently my son's 30-key toy keyboard. 

[Karl Henning]

Do you have perfect pitch, Karl? If so, I'm sure that helps. I don't, but my brother does.

Nor I, but my relative pitch is sturdy; and after I work on a given piece, I have a reliable sense of where a particular pitch is . . . though that is not strictly perfect pitch.

[Karl Henning]

Sounds like a mixed bag for you there, Alan. I've always had to work hard to love the flute when it's prominent. That is one of the reasons that I like PI sound, since metal flutes are even more shrill than wooden ones.

Considering the somewhat numerous pieces I've been writing with flute (as a result of knowing fine flutists in both Boston and Atlanta), I little suspected how mine atonal honking might be an affliction in your ears, Gurn ; )

In general, though, I think we are in something like alignment . . . I tend to prefer my flute tone warm and breathy, and that's the range I tend to favor.  Have you considered the alto flute, Gurn? . . .

[Gurn Blanston]

Considering the somewhat numerous pieces I've been writing with flute (as a result of knowing fine flutists in both Boston and Atlanta), I little suspected how mine atonal honking might be an affliction in your ears, Gurn ; )

In general, though, I think we are in something like alignment . . . I tend to prefer my flute tone warm and breathy, and that's the range I tend to favor.  Have you considered the alto flute, Gurn? . . .

I can't think of a work that I've heard composed and played on one, Karl. When I saw that picture in James' Stockhausen post the other day of that concert in Montreal, I had to stop and think for a moment before I came up with alto flute.   But there is no doubt that a wooden flute sounds much easier on my ears than a Böhm flute. I don't see that any favor was done to the music loving public through that invention.

[TheGSMoeller]

Considering the somewhat numerous pieces I've been writing with flute (as a result of knowing fine flutists in both Boston and Atlanta), I little suspected how mine atonal honking might be an affliction in your ears, Gurn ; )

In general, though, I think we are in something like alignment . . . I tend to prefer my flute tone warm and breathy, and that's the range I tend to favor.  Have you considered the alto flute, Gurn? . . .

So you're not going to be composing a piccolo quartet any time soon? 

[Karl Henning]

I can't think of a work that I've heard composed and played on one, Karl.

I'm cryin' here, Gurn ; )

On my ReverbNation page, there's a recording of The Angel Who Bears a Flaming Sword, the version for alto flute, expertly played by Peter H. Bloom. (Had to split it into two parts, file-size restrictions there.)  I should take it as a signal honor if, at your convenience, you might give 'er a listen, and share your thoughts.

[Karl Henning]

So you're not going to be composing a piccolo quartet any time soon? 

No, but just a day or two ago I remembered this, and am accordingly plotting a new alto flute solo for PHB.