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I'd love to review it if I could, but I don't have the means at the moment without an mp3 or midi... sorry.

Praeludium, perhaps the word you're searching for is concertina?

I didn't know that was possible. I'd wondered some time back about the possibility of pitch bending on a piano by having some variable tension strings, but that's just utterly impractical.

The little men in your computer, right? That live on your soundcard? One of the percussionists got bored and fell asleep and that is the sound his head made hitting the kit.

Yeah, I have a pdf-as-printer that I use regularly that was free (can't remember what it was called, though... sorry). It is excellent.

I think my most original period was when I was experimenting with microtonality. Thing is, all of the microtonal stuff I attempted sucked. I'm no great shakes at normal composition, and that level of originality simply didn't give me enough basis to create anything that sounded like anything.

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Although this is diverging a bit from the topic at hand, I've found that this dictates what I write - mainly string trio or quartet, since I know people that would be willing to play them, whereas I know fewer (competent) percussionists or (any) windists (I know there's a better term here but it escapes me at the moment). Also, I compose. I don't play any instruments, and I'm not very good at composing (or maybe I'm just amazing but humble :whistling: ) but the point is, it feels presumptuous asking someone who has put in years of learning an instrument to play something by me, who has put in months of learning composition.

I'm a bit blown away. I don't have a trained-enough ear to catch many of the piano mistakes, or to offer any really valuable critique, but this is good enough to save the mp3 to harddrive. I especially like the segues from the faster portions to the slower.

Indeed. Thanksmuch.

I was listening to John Cage in the car on the way home from school today... forgot that was the CD I had in, and my girlfriend looked at me funny.

This has been troubling me also. I haven't a clue.

I really liked it... who'd you get to play it? It sure sounded better than any MIDI I've ever gotten out of this computer before, so I'm assuming it's a live recording anyway.