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Post by driscollmusick on Apr 22, 2019 14:58:47 GMT
Sorry for the cheek. Sounds like it might be time to help in the garden? You're not wrong there John. Amanuensis duties for me, the garden is the wife's manuscript and I am the holder of the spade....bugger Not to veer your thread too far off-topic, but I do find gardening to be a creative art form, with many parallels to composition. My barren yard is a blank sheet of paper that I want to convert into an enjoyable experience for those who encounter it. As much as I would love a fantastical Eden, in reality I am faced with lots of limitations which bear down hard on my best-laid plans. The plants themselves are each limited, in size, in shape, but more intrinsically in their needs for water and light. Even if a plant looks beautiful in a particular location, it needs to be able to survive and thrive there. I find this akin to instrumentation/orchestration--learning not just how to keep your plants alive (playable), but how to maximize their role within the ensemble. I've got so much to learn about combinations... In many ways, it seems like the gardener make all the decisions, but nature has its own agenda. The garden grows in funny ways and you need to learn to work with that counterforce instead of fighting it. You will never win over nature, but you can let it surprise you with its novelty. Many of the gardener's choices nevertheless are essentially permanent. You can't dig up your plants every few days. You need to be able to manage a lot of high-level thinking before finalizing your approach. By the time you have the piece performed, it's way too late to be moving trees, though you might be able to remove a dead branch or two. One could even argue great gardening is time-based art (just on the scale of seasons, not minutes). Can you structure a space to make it interesting over the course of each year? No other art form does that. |
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Post by Bob Porter on Apr 22, 2019 22:36:19 GMT
Excellent, Mike. Good to know. Over-complication. Just another service I provide. I have run into spacing causing problems. Just never the problem you had.
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Post by Mike Hewer on May 1, 2019 13:21:02 GMT
Finally finished...and to keep the gardening metaphor alive...time for a beer, ok, I know, but I'll be drinking it in the garden. Surely that counts as garden metaphorical stuff right?
I'll send a link when the scores finished for you all to listen to if you wish.
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Post by driscollmusick on May 1, 2019 16:48:22 GMT
Finally finished...and to keep the gardening metaphor alive...time for a beer, ok, I know, but I'll be drinking it in the garden. Surely that counts as garden metaphorical stuff right? I'll send a link when the scores finished for you all to listen to if you wish. I am excited to hear your new series of Biergarten polkas! And I look forward to the completed ending, too... |
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Post by gx on May 4, 2019 21:22:55 GMT
"Biergarten polkas!" I'm sure that this will give Lawrence Welk a run for his money:) A couple of days ago, a red tailed hawk snatched a smaller bird from the feeder, and carried it off in it's talons. It can get pretty Darwin out there in the garden.. Flowers exploding along with the pincher bugs, carpenter bees, a family of mocking birds (what luck!) along w our comical squirrel friends.. (I must admit, although I like Ashby's films, Chauncey the gardener - as a comic metaphor - didn't work for me  Looking forward to hearing, Mike! |
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Post by Dave Dexter on May 14, 2019 15:54:37 GMT
Finally finished...and to keep the gardening metaphor alive...time for a beer, ok, I know, but I'll be drinking it in the garden. Surely that counts as garden metaphorical stuff right? I'll send a link when the scores finished for you all to listen to if you wish. I mow and that's about it. Occasional sawing of branches makes me feel like my dad. Anyway, what are you waiting for? Let's listen  |
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Post by Mike Hewer on May 15, 2019 7:35:13 GMT
I know you chaps might want to follow the score and so I'll send you a link in a few days when the notes at least have been inputted into Sibelius.
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Post by BootHamilton on May 15, 2019 21:19:41 GMT
Finally finished...and to keep the gardening metaphor alive...time for a beer, ok, I know, but I'll be drinking it in the garden. Surely that counts as garden metaphorical stuff right? I'll send a link when the scores finished for you all to listen to if you wish. Not to mention that a little beer in a saucer is supposed to attract slugs, who then drown. Never tried it, as I never have any left over. How can I hear this in-progress masterpiece? Hi Mike. |
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Post by Mike Hewer on May 16, 2019 6:31:21 GMT
Finally finished...and to keep the gardening metaphor alive...time for a beer, ok, I know, but I'll be drinking it in the garden. Surely that counts as garden metaphorical stuff right? I'll send a link when the scores finished for you all to listen to if you wish. Not to mention that a little beer in a saucer is supposed to attract slugs, who then drown. Never tried it, as I never have any left over. How can I hear this in-progress masterpiece? Hi Mike. Hi Boot, I can confirm that the slug thing works, only because I was too drunk to stop the missus using a can of beer. Look in your in-box. |
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Post by Mike Hewer on May 16, 2019 17:56:02 GMT
It's done chaps, check your in boxes...
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Post by gx on May 24, 2019 18:12:01 GMT
Hey Mike. I listened through the whole work again, and enjoyed it very much. I love your sense of transition, and how you'll use the last phrase of a section as the beginning idea of another. The orchestration is so expressive, with many shifts in timbre, reminding me of Ravel in that way..
I felt that the last section felt inevitable, and a very powerful culmination and punctuation!
Really amazing, so full of delight and charm!
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Post by Mike Hewer on May 25, 2019 9:34:02 GMT
Thanks Greg. Yes, Ravel is a big influence in scoring for me, and there are definitely some moments, although in this there is more Tchaikovsky I feel in this piece. The last mvt, apart from being about the birds, then goes on to recap all the animals seen (heard) before in some playful combinations (whilst still developing the themes, such is my want) - much like the finale of a ballet where the principal characters come back on stage to their musics. The opening theme is in there too in climactic and other moments....a mash up. The rhythm of the final Dmajor chords is based on the rhythm of a woodpigeons cooing, why he gets the last word is me and my wife's secret.  |
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