Compositon #R

One of my compositions. i hope u like it

Since I already wrote about my general thoughts about this kind of music in your other thread, I will refrain from doing so here.

From the looks, I'd definitely prefer the other piece, but of course that isn't what counts the most in a piece of music. Musically, this has something speaking for itself: Its very simple form and clarity. The musician can decide on a way of interpreting it and no matter in what musical parameters this line will be translated it probably -will- have a clearly audible result that can be credited to the score. Your other piece is more complex and ambiguous, which -may- lead to a fascinating plurality of interpretations which still keep aspects of the score, or it may turn out incomprehensible, as the different interpretations of all the elements in the score cancel each other out and you get a grey mass of sound without any direction. Personally I think the more open and free your scores are, the simpler they have to be for them still to have an effect. Therefore I really appreciate this one.

I keep some general doubts which I voiced in the other thread, but here I think it may work rather well without specifying anything more about the piece, whereas the other one might simply turn out random, to say it bluntly.

hi, thanks for your comments in my songs, i really, really, appreciate it, because i see that u know what you are talking about. thanks once again.

Awesome! a red line!

Hi Jose, have you ever tried writing a huge graphic score? There's a video on youtube of somebody's graphic interpretation of Penderecki's 'Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima' which you may be interested in. If you havn't heard that piece, you should give it a listen. It's one of the scariest musical experiences you will ever have!

Originally Posted by marsbars

Awesome! a red line!

RED LINE 4 PREZ...

Sorry I can't let go that was too hilarious.

Otherwise, well, uh, it's a red line. ... I don't know what else to say. This type of stuff doesn't work for me, it's waaaaaaay too vague.

How the hell is the red line there a musical idea again? Is it related to the title? Is it supposed to be interpreted in an instrument? Any instrument?

Just drawing a red line and not saying anything isn't really working here. I mean, Gardener talked about Cage and stuff in the other thread, and he's right. You need to be more elaborate, expose something more than just the drawing or I can as well not treat it as music since the only thing musical about it is the context and forum, not anything related to the actual thing.

I mean, everything can as well be considered "musical" but this, like I said elsewhere, on the interwebs simply don't work. If we had to improvize something based on that drawing, that's fine. If it had something to do with physical location, that's fine too. But as it is?

I don't know if you really understand the whole spirit of the fluxus thing. What is this supposed to represent? And I'm sure you're aware stuff like this works if you're actually THERE in person and such things with "happenings" and so on. You can't artificially recreate that sort of stuff, much less on the internet.

My response:

... .... .. ... ---- .... --- ... . - .. . --- .. -- . . ... .. .. --

&&& ^^ & ^

In other words, to concur with SSC it would be nice to offer some guidance --- even if you do not want to you can offer ideas. For example, - rotate in any direction to determine the quality of each parameter of the piece to be performed. So a falling line for rhythmn could indicate a continuous accel, if the paper is rotated so it is a slightly rising horizontal line it could indicate a microtonal rise in pitch, etc...

...just take an instrument and play one long note getting burned in the end..
..or multiply the note on several instruments...
nice tense movement
p.s i just though of a score for the painter (because i can't draw):
black pencil, two figures, the blossom and the cliffs, out of nowhere, the love

Wait, what the fuck? He's serious?