Publicity Stunt

Someday I am going to wear a T-shirt that reads, simply, Conclusion, and I’ll walk around telling people: “Jump to me!”

Some Rivets in the Warning

Yesterday’s Bobs song du jour: “First I Was a Hippie, Then I Was a Stockbroker, Now I Am a Hippie Again”; a plagal cadence for the angels.

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This week I was puttering with a passage in Fair Warning, a non-retrogradeable rhythm which does not round out to an even beat, thus repetition of the pattern provides fresh relations against the underlying meter. Not that this rhythmic game is The Thing (though it is, I think, playfully cool). It’s one element which serves as a ‘binding’. Both structural, and yet generating surface interest as well.

So, the non-ret. rhythm will ‘round out’ to the even crotchet after the fourth iteration. Decided to set a contrapuntal voice in the bass augmented by a factor of 3 (16th-note = dotted-eighth), and entering some eleven-ish bars in. So we’ve got (drumroll, please) . . . contrast (the two voices moving at different paces); unity (the two voices adhere to the same pattern); & convergence upon the same goal.

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I’ve been listening to a ton of Martinů lately. This morning, though, it’s William Schuman’s Symphony № 3 played by the Seattle Symphony, coducted by Gerard Schwarz.

Getting on with it

First movement of the viola sonata is called Fair Warning. (The sketch from a couple of years ago which wound up being the seed of the larger piece, will be the third and final movement.) The bus yesterday morning was a little more rumbly than usual. And my pen was starting to dry up. Still got some music written, though. And further progress yester even.

Dance of the Piscine Slap

Yellow Submarine

(BP edition)

♫ In the town where I was born
Lived a man who soiled the sea . . . .

And then there was the Library

This one’s not nearly so tardy . . . though not exactly what one might call timely, neither: Nicole, Brian & I play at the West End Branch of the Boston Public Library (22 June 2010).

Later, at King’s

When Peter & I played at King’s Chapel (18 May 2010), I plugged the MicroTrack II into an available outlet, there in the historic edifice . . . inexpert as I am at electrics, I wonder if that is perhaps responsible for the undercurrent hum. Maybe I ought just to have run it on its battery (which was, in fact, charged that day). Ah, well. Hum and all, here’s the audio at Instant Encore.