Monthly Archives: December 2006

Allegro agitato

Here is another composition. Maybe you can figure out how I have been feeling… Allegro agitato (Sheet music ; Finale source).

Delayed Gratification

Karlin and I were talking today, and she mentioned that I need to be better at delayed gratification; i.e. I need a better work ethic; i.e. I need to be better at doing stuff that I don’t enjoy. She finds that quality admirable. I agreed with her at the time, but giving it [...]

Quartet

I just got Finale 2007 with GPO. I just tried it out a little, and it sounded incredible. Concerto2 soundbank, bite me (incidentally, I got many samples for concerto2 from GPO). I was so inspired by these great patches that I wrote a new song! It’s called A 41: Quartet [...]

Shades of Dark Blue

Today’s improvisation (no warmup)
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Empty

Today’s improvisation

Trio

Today’s improvisation is a piece with strictly three voices.

The Curse

Today’s improvisation

Elemental Sonata

Today’s improvisation is in three movements (played straight through, with a little warm-up before the first movement).
Oh, the reason that I am posting this right now is because my desktop magically booted today. Who knows how long it will last.

Improv Hiatus

People may have noticed that I haven’t been improvising for the past 10 days. My stupid desktop’s stupid hard drive died (sigh, it happens all the time; fortunately I have backups of everything), and my desktop is what I use to record, so I haven’t been recording. It’ll be another couple weeks until [...]

Women are Evil

I have a correction to the statement of the theorem “Women are Evil”. Here is a proof:
Women = Time • Money, and Time = Money, so Women = Money2. Also, note that Money is the root of all evil, i.e. Money = sqrt(∀ Evil). So Women = sqrt(∀ Evil)2 = ∀ Evil. [...]