The other chap: I like donuts, man. Sue me.
Me: Criminalizing doughnuts is contrary to my policy.
Consuming them is contrary to my waistline.
Consuming them is contrary to my waistline.
Separately, I am suddenly struck by what a bizarre phrase “designated hitter” is.
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. [Washington] Irving in Spain, and found the author, whom I had loved, repeated in the man. The same playful humor; the same touches of sentiment; the same poetic atmosphere; and, what I admired still more, the entire absence of all literary jealousy, of all that mean avarice of fame, which counts what is given to another as so much taken from one’s self....
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A friend’s recent essay in electronic music obliquely reminded me that some time has passed since I have puttered in the genre of fixed media. Partly as a lark, partly to test the waters, I fairly quickly assembled this sound collage. To a small degree, I took Lennon’s “Revolution 9” for a model. I made much less use of found speech objects in my piece, however. Elements include the MIDI demo of my own Angular Whimsies, a Dowland piece for viols, and an orchestral Larghetto sped up probably past recognition. Planning to produce more than one, I dubbed this Constructions of the Since (No. 1.) I have noted ere now that I mean to write a short(er) wind ensemble piece. (Nor is there any reason for me not to write more than one.) The thought arose of making it (or another, as just hinted) a piece for wind ensemble and fixed media. I have quickly set aside the rapidly flitting notion of building such a piece out of No. 1 here. But the idea of creating such a Construction specifically for a wind ensemble piece, that is worth pursuing.
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