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| By Sorabji on Tuesday, February 24, 1998 - 09:56 pm: |
right now it's "have you ever seen the rain," by ccr. a minute ago it was "dust in the wind" by kansas. before that was that alkan left-hand etude, op. 76. my favorite CCR song is "who'll stop the rain," but the midi of that song i started between that last sentence and this one does it no justice at all. for my birthday mom sent a weird e-card thing which had a picture of me at 2 with a midi of alkan's op. 61 sonatine in the background. not just weird, positively deranged. the picture of me was pulsating atop the screen, and behind this incessant picture of me was a midi version of alkan's most vacuous score, the last movement of his almost respectable op. 61. that's ok, of course, but who else in the world could have sent such a birthday greeting? for some reason, the last 2 nights i've been listening to an andreas vollenweider tape mom sent me a couple of years ago. maybe 4-5 years ago. ths stuff doesn't suit me, but nothing does anyway. for some reason i am suddenly remembering a small town in florida and the music i heard there. a church choir singing hymns. rubberbabybuggybumpers. i hear church hymns and all i can think is "man, those things are hard to sight-read perfectly the first time." for a pianist they are virtually impossible, i dare you. and if you get one right you'll blow the the next 12. now i'm listening to the mendelssohn octet.MID. i agree with whoever it was who said Bach would have been all over synthesizers had they existed in his time. he loved hearing familiar music in new ways. i think the midi file i once heard of ravel's g major piano concerto surpasses some of the "analog" recordings of that music in many ways. most midi files suck so bad you can't believe you just spent the time it took to listen to them. and it looks like my mouse pointer just disappeared. shit. |
| By Tucker on Monday, March 16, 1998 - 12:13 am: |
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