Crazy things in composition???

I once wrote a piece for Prepared Piano, Jeff Foxworthy, and phallic object.

So. Aren't you going to share the score with us!?!

Can you at least tell us if the phallic object was used on the piano or on Jeff Foxworthy?

I think my song Teacake rocks. That's probably the craziest structure i've done for a song...

I could see it being played for a concert like All Region Orchestra or any school competition where tons of people try to fill as many possible.

You mean like that "Fischer Choir" .... an army of semi-singers singing silly songs ?

Well if someone plays that joke I wrote, he deserves the "Enthusiasm Award" :D

You mean like that "Fischer Choir" .... an army of semi-singers singing silly songs ?

Well if someone plays that joke I wrote, he deserves the "Enthusiasm Award" :D

Im talking about school music competitions in where students try out for a honor orchestra, or regional orchestra that meets only once a year for one concert, they like to play funny music and they have ton of kids try out every year.

Out of pure random curiosity, how did you write the rhythmical values of the notes in pi/4 time?

Since it's basically 3.1415... beats per measure, it's just a 3/4 bar with a .1415th of a beat added on... something less like a dotted sixteenth note but not quite resembling an eighth note. I never did figure out how to represent the pi-beat graphically, though I just used a many dotted sixteenth note in Finale to approximate a meter somewhere between 3/4 and 7/8 that isn't 13/16. More novelty and less practical, but still manageable.

I? doesn't it only go up to G? :P

Why would you even want a high English horn? Isn't that would oboes are for?

Lol sorry it took so long to reply :P

Ninja Q, you heard of different sounds? That's why

I think Crazy is the wrong word and I think that idea has already been address so I apologize. But everyone does something 'crazy' but crazy should be mistaken for strange/different/unusual. I've ended pieces with one instrument going back to the tonic, tone clusters, and indefinite pitches on strings. The thing that matters is-does the end of this piece make sense, and is it effective. If you wanna talk about weird endings, listen to almost anything by Ives.

For me, probably this:

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/raggedy-hymen-winds-11909.html

Scrape the bottom piano strings with an ID card. Or credit card.

Also I wrote a piece for solo voice in which the vocalist is required to make airplane noises and later scream "lemons." And even later laugh awkwardly for about...oh, two minutes.

As far as crazy goes, this isn't too far off the chart. The end of my first symphony is written to emulate the sound of a thunderstorm with a classical orchestra, so we have trombone fortissimi, gong and cymbal hits and crashes, but most importantly, the Violins, Violas, and Cellos are all instructed to play random col legno notes at random spaces for random durations. All of this happens and dies out, with no "harmonic" ending. The symphony is on my profile page if anyone wants to see what I'm talking about.

As far as crazy goes, this isn't too far off the chart. The end of my first symphony is written to emulate the sound of a thunderstorm with a classical orchestra, so we have trombone fortissimi, gong and cymbal hits and crashes, but most importantly, the Violins, Violas, and Cellos are all instructed to play random col legno notes at random spaces for random durations. All of this happens and dies out, with no "harmonic" ending. The symphony is on my profile page if anyone wants to see what I'm talking about.

You might want to look over your string writing in your symphony.

You might want to look over your string writing in your symphony.

I thought it was a pretty clever idea. Penderecki and guys like him do even more eccentric things than that. I mean some of the stuff I've heard is absurd. One of my ideas is even more absurd than that, but I'm saying it anytime soon :P.

REPEAT OUT LOUD OR SAY TO YOURSELF:

THIS IS MUSIC

QUESTION: WAS MUSIC MADE?

REPEAT OUT LOUD OR SAY TO YOURSELF:

THIS IS MUSIC

QUESTION: WAS MUSIC MADE?

i approve of this post

REPEAT OUT LOUD OR SAY TO YOURSELF:

THIS IS MUSIC

QUESTION: WAS MUSIC MADE?

YES

AS WELL AS CAPS LOCK

lol heckel

Probably the craziest thing I've ever done is this. I used to write viola parts in treble clef because I didn't like working with alto clef; I would only change the clef using the Finale staff tool when the music was all finished.

So for one rehearsal for a string quartet I was in a hurry, and printed out the viola's part... in tenor clef.

Since that day I have always written viola parts in alto clef. :)

Since it's basically 3.1415... beats per measure, it's just a 3/4 bar with a .1415th of a beat added on... something less like a dotted sixteenth note but not quite resembling an eighth note. I never did figure out how to represent the pi-beat graphically, though I just used a many dotted sixteenth note in Finale to approximate a meter somewhere between 3/4 and 7/8 that isn't 13/16. More novelty and less practical, but still manageable.

Technically 22/7 would have been an even more accurate time signature :)

Probably the craziest thing I've ever done is this. I used to write viola parts in treble clef because I didn't like working with alto clef; I would only change the clef using the Finale staff tool when the music was all finished.

So for one rehearsal for a string quartet I was in a hurry, and printed out the viola's part... in tenor clef.

Since that day I have always written viola parts in alto clef. :)

That does no good for you you should learn alto clef No one is above this

Sometimes I think the craziest thing anyone can do in composition is to be original.

Sometimes I think the craziest thing anyone can do in composition is to be original.

lol

That's great!

Sometimes I think the most impossible thing anyone can do in composition is to be original.

Fixed for you.

Hmmm... perhaps this.