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Nearly fifteen relatives and relatives-in-law and relatives-in-law-to-be and foreign exchange students. Max reminded me a lot of Christian. Are all Germans the same?
Dead Sea Scrolls. Ahh. Old parchment. With tiny incomprehensible writing. Ancient. Older than some pyramids.
I must make Nia an Ailurian phylactery.
Well, here is the plan.
plannnnn
Gesualdo+electric insect rock+quarter tones+Bartokian dissonance = ballet
AHHHH YOUR PLAN SCARES ME
we have to write some electric insect rock first
We do.
Is this your collaborative plan with Reggie, or is it a general us-type plan?
General us type plan because there is so much research, prewriting exercise, and work to do first. But I plan to do most of the writing; after all, it is my plan.
yes. I just got a quartertone rock DVD and watched it. I will help you research
And I have no doubt that the pre-planning work will result in several awesome pieces, and most not by me.
Yay!
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did a concert with two different Moroccan orchestras
OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH.
Yes.
*insert happy dance*
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know. When logic and proportion are falling in your head
... remember what the dormouse said.
Just remember
Feed your head?
Yes.
Well, i remember.
You do. I am proud.
qwer tyuiop
b-doyng
Confused none the less for knowing
.
.: thesis - I am not thinking enough.
rar
Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog.
Race car.
rar.
Research for project: we need:
I. Quarter tone rock band
check
II. recordings of John Zorn and other third stream stuff
no Zorn, but check
box full of tapes
Awesome.
III. Electric insect rock
IV. The pieces by Gesualdo we are going to use.
no checks yet
Okay. To do list, then.
Score to Bartok string Quartets 3 and 4 plus score to Ligeti string quartet 1
V.
VI. research material for quarter tone rock music.
have some
Awesome.
VII. Strvinsky arrangements of Gesualdo as a guide.
shall have.
VIII. plot for ballet
That is what we need to have to start with.
Not too bad.
ballet. Morgan le Fay.
Explain.
Also movie idea. Ballet=difficult to plot
but
using archetypes helps
Okay...
Good.
Idea for instrumentation(tenative):
Various winds, including a soprano, alto, tenor, and barry sax, brass...
full precussion compliment
piano
yes hm
two amplified violins
celloooooo
wait!
Two electric guitars
electric bass
OOOH
yes
and a string section made up entirely of cellos, four of which have amplification available.
What do you think? I would also have a theramin, but who can play it?
I could practice
I think we should have one just for the sound, whether anyone is good at it or not
You wouldn't be virtuostic... lets get in touch with the Houston theremin society.
I'm sure we have one.
Right?
um
I could look it up, but I think we'd have heard of it
All right.
That means any prospective theremin part could be one controlled on a basis of texture, aka a chance part.
Easy to do technically, but possibly involving some really dificult counting.
hm. I can count
How sensitive is your left hand?
fairly
That is the volume hand.
I might make you learn specific volumes.
ok
And if you would be playing it, I could include a soprano/mezzo part, right?
yes.
Give you something to do the rest of the time.
phh
A la Glass; "One two three four, one two three four five six seven eight..."
I'm just kiding.
sh.
No, wait, someone else should do the theremin, so we can have a section with voice/theremin interference.
And a blatant jazz/rock section.
Wth piano, voice, guitars, bass, theremin and alto sax.
yes.
less sax than everything else though
Sax would just be crazy running sixtyfourths.
What would be the ballet's subject matter?
hm
difficult to say
especially if we're going to have rock bits
Repressed sexuality?
lol
That covers all possible plots.
well
that's what another rock opera was about
That is what every rock opera was about, and this is not a rock opera.
Its a classical ballet.
With jazz musicians.
and rock sections
And electric insect rock.
Exactly.
thus
It might need several conductors.
it must have a plot compatible with rock, though
because it is very specifically expressive, no use wasting it
Octobre revolution?
Animal farm?
A demented version of Fame?
hm.
no.
Good!
Small subject...
Schrodinger.
Make a ballet about Schrodinger having an affair.
DIE
I AM READING ABOUT HIS CAT
which is why multitasking is so hard
http://metalandmagic.com/Pages/Galleries/ramblings/Ramble2.html
I was in the middle of this
It could be called Schrodinger's Cat.
yes.
It could be very funny.
or tragic
Or trajically funny.
in Reggie phonetics.
Ooops.
" am reminded of the colloquial definitions, at this point—“naked” means you don’t have any clothes on, and “nekkid” means that you don’t have any clothes on and are looking to get in trouble."
yes.
Same website. Hmmm.
I really adore Ursula Vernon.
I think you probably would, too.
She is weird like us.
Yay. I think I would.
I sent you the link to that specific page, but if you go to metalandmagic.com and go to Ursula's section, it has more. Under tutorials, actually
Hmm.
Well, get the Gesualdo we can start with this evil plan.
Grrr.
okayyyy
We must do this!
I have been busy seeing ancient parchemnt
What was your favourite thing about the parchment?
it was leather and it had tiny incomprehensible writing on it and it was olldldldddd
That last word is definetly spelled correctly. Olldldldddd.
Once the ballet is writen and the scenario is complete, who will perform it and who will choreograph the dancers?
that is a bridge to cross later.
Okay... but it troubles me. Does Rice have a jazz department?
No, but we have kids who can play killer jazz.
Awesome.
The score may call for some wierd varieties of improv on the part of the pianist, saxaphones, and guitarists + percussion and cello.
And theremin.
And voice.
Maybe one of the violins.
whatever works. We can get players.
About Schrodinger's Cat. Hmmm. It will have some sections of apropriate ambiguity.
yes.
Two completely different parts coexsisting simultaneously.
Dead Sea Scrolls. Ahh. Old parchment. With tiny incomprehensible writing. Ancient. Older than some pyramids.
I must make Nia an Ailurian phylactery.
Well, here is the plan.
plannnnn
Gesualdo+electric insect rock+quarter tones+Bartokian dissonance = ballet
AHHHH YOUR PLAN SCARES ME
we have to write some electric insect rock first
We do.
Is this your collaborative plan with Reggie, or is it a general us-type plan?
General us type plan because there is so much research, prewriting exercise, and work to do first. But I plan to do most of the writing; after all, it is my plan.
yes. I just got a quartertone rock DVD and watched it. I will help you research
And I have no doubt that the pre-planning work will result in several awesome pieces, and most not by me.
Yay!
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did a concert with two different Moroccan orchestras
OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH.
Yes.
*insert happy dance*
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know. When logic and proportion are falling in your head
... remember what the dormouse said.
Just remember
Feed your head?
Yes.
Well, i remember.
You do. I am proud.
qwer tyuiop
b-doyng
Confused none the less for knowing
.
.: thesis - I am not thinking enough.
rar
Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog.
Race car.
rar.
Research for project: we need:
I. Quarter tone rock band
check
II. recordings of John Zorn and other third stream stuff
no Zorn, but check
box full of tapes
Awesome.
III. Electric insect rock
IV. The pieces by Gesualdo we are going to use.
no checks yet
Okay. To do list, then.
Score to Bartok string Quartets 3 and 4 plus score to Ligeti string quartet 1
V.
VI. research material for quarter tone rock music.
have some
Awesome.
VII. Strvinsky arrangements of Gesualdo as a guide.
shall have.
VIII. plot for ballet
That is what we need to have to start with.
Not too bad.
ballet. Morgan le Fay.
Explain.
Also movie idea. Ballet=difficult to plot
but
using archetypes helps
Okay...
Good.
Idea for instrumentation(tenative):
Various winds, including a soprano, alto, tenor, and barry sax, brass...
full precussion compliment
piano
yes hm
two amplified violins
celloooooo
wait!
Two electric guitars
electric bass
OOOH
yes
and a string section made up entirely of cellos, four of which have amplification available.
What do you think? I would also have a theramin, but who can play it?
I could practice
I think we should have one just for the sound, whether anyone is good at it or not
You wouldn't be virtuostic... lets get in touch with the Houston theremin society.
I'm sure we have one.
Right?
um
I could look it up, but I think we'd have heard of it
All right.
That means any prospective theremin part could be one controlled on a basis of texture, aka a chance part.
Easy to do technically, but possibly involving some really dificult counting.
hm. I can count
How sensitive is your left hand?
fairly
That is the volume hand.
I might make you learn specific volumes.
ok
And if you would be playing it, I could include a soprano/mezzo part, right?
yes.
Give you something to do the rest of the time.
phh
A la Glass; "One two three four, one two three four five six seven eight..."
I'm just kiding.
sh.
No, wait, someone else should do the theremin, so we can have a section with voice/theremin interference.
And a blatant jazz/rock section.
Wth piano, voice, guitars, bass, theremin and alto sax.
yes.
less sax than everything else though
Sax would just be crazy running sixtyfourths.
What would be the ballet's subject matter?
hm
difficult to say
especially if we're going to have rock bits
Repressed sexuality?
lol
That covers all possible plots.
well
that's what another rock opera was about
That is what every rock opera was about, and this is not a rock opera.
Its a classical ballet.
With jazz musicians.
and rock sections
And electric insect rock.
Exactly.
thus
It might need several conductors.
it must have a plot compatible with rock, though
because it is very specifically expressive, no use wasting it
Octobre revolution?
Animal farm?
A demented version of Fame?
hm.
no.
Good!
Small subject...
Schrodinger.
Make a ballet about Schrodinger having an affair.
DIE
I AM READING ABOUT HIS CAT
which is why multitasking is so hard
http://metalandmagic.com/Pages/Galleries/ramblings/Ramble2.html
I was in the middle of this
It could be called Schrodinger's Cat.
yes.
It could be very funny.
or tragic
Or trajically funny.
in Reggie phonetics.
Ooops.
" am reminded of the colloquial definitions, at this point—“naked” means you don’t have any clothes on, and “nekkid” means that you don’t have any clothes on and are looking to get in trouble."
yes.
Same website. Hmmm.
I really adore Ursula Vernon.
I think you probably would, too.
She is weird like us.
Yay. I think I would.
I sent you the link to that specific page, but if you go to metalandmagic.com and go to Ursula's section, it has more. Under tutorials, actually
Hmm.
Well, get the Gesualdo we can start with this evil plan.
Grrr.
okayyyy
We must do this!
I have been busy seeing ancient parchemnt
What was your favourite thing about the parchment?
it was leather and it had tiny incomprehensible writing on it and it was olldldldddd
That last word is definetly spelled correctly. Olldldldddd.
Once the ballet is writen and the scenario is complete, who will perform it and who will choreograph the dancers?
that is a bridge to cross later.
Okay... but it troubles me. Does Rice have a jazz department?
No, but we have kids who can play killer jazz.
Awesome.
The score may call for some wierd varieties of improv on the part of the pianist, saxaphones, and guitarists + percussion and cello.
And theremin.
And voice.
Maybe one of the violins.
whatever works. We can get players.
About Schrodinger's Cat. Hmmm. It will have some sections of apropriate ambiguity.
yes.
Two completely different parts coexsisting simultaneously.
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