Absolutely beautiful work on the Requiem Karen, Thank you so much for the link. Aesthetically and intellectually inspiring, not to mention, moving material, which I can not praise enough, without sounding foolish. Anyone would be proud to have their name on it, in all honesty. Best holiday wishes to you and your family.
I am tickled to death to learn that your wonderful music is getting some of the recognition it deserves. Please keep us up to date on any other performances / recordings and especially new work you are doing.. Its Very Very good work.
Thanks Karen!
I was thinking about building a new system, with 8GB of RAM - the motherboard, processor, memory, and power supply I priced out through Newegg amount to about 600 bucks - pretty cheap. that includes a Windows 64 bit OS, which I believe is necessary to utilize more than 4GB RAM. If I'm wrong, tell me. You're a techie. I built my current system, but only put in 2GB, thinking that was all I'd ever utilize.
Hey Karen, thanks a lot for the kind words! Really glad you liked what you heard! I've listened to the first few pieces here and it's all really very good! Thoroughly enjoyed each piece! The Psalm, in particular, because it's so lively and upbeat! Kudos!
As for me, I don’t know the specifics of how I compose. I think it may have something to do with a sense of, compositionally, what ought to come next, but what it is, specifically that informs me of what I think should come next, I am not sure. It’s probably some mix of nature/nurture. I am a white male born in the 20th century so I expect that carries its own set of pre-conceived expectations and notions of what is right or at least inevitable.
More frightening still are the questions about why one composes. I strongly suspect you are right, viewed rationally; the urge to compose is a form of insanity. There is no market for what is produced, the effort is stupendous and the outcome more often than not, dismal.
Is it that the “Composer” is so divorced from reality that he /she/it needs to have the throbbing of drums and the blaring of horns accompany their every step, even if the sound is imaginary? Do we do it because we are convinced that we have something to say? If so, what arrogance. Do we do it because we think our music will somehow make us, or at least our names, immortal? Is it a way of saying “I’m here world, pay attention to me”? And if it is, is that healthy?
As I grow ever older but apparently no wiser, it has become increasingly important to me to try to write with some kind of honesty or integrity. I don’t feel any need to shock anyone or prove versatile or skill though I would not avoid these concepts if I was convinced it contributed to what I was trying to compose.
Honesty, there’s the bugaboo.
I am now in a spot where if I listen to something I’ve done and I start to think, "that’s not bad"… I get a big head and the arrogance of the notion prevents me from getting down to reality. Believe me, when I do that the concept of honesty is on vacation, out to lunch for 6 weeks.
What an improbably task it is to write music or at least music that has some pretense of integrity. One must look at a blank page and try to fill it with things one has made up, but for it to work, the made up things must be real.
Well, sorry for dragging on like this, but it is a topic of interest.
I listened to part of the Requiem last night and some of your other music as well. You have a great ear, a fine sense of musical structure and a great deal of skill understanding how instruments work and their idiosyncratic use.
It is very very good music. It a delight to hear it.
I will have a chance to listen to the Requem when I get home this evening. Farily good speakers there. Thank you for giving me the opportunity.
Is the ingredient Colostrum? You or your physician may wish to check with a company called Advanced Protein Systems (602-353-8800) Bob Davies President. This is the most credible source of Colostrum product and data that I know of. I met Bob at a trade event in Geneva in May. Very bright and a straight shooter. If anyone knows the potential for Colostrum, including dosages etc., on this situation, it would be him.
Thank you for your very gracious words about American Songs.
I was dismayed to learn of your autoimmune condition. As my bio points out, i've spent my life in the pharmaceutical industry but have an abiding interest in so called Alternative Medicine, sometimes called CAM (Complimentary and Alternatiuve Medicine).
There really is nothing in the conventional pharmaceutical inventory that is long term safe and effective at mitigating this situation. Similarly the products in Alternative Medicine have at best mixed results and are not subject to the same clinical oversight as Rx products.
There is, however, one possible avenue that has shown some good results in a very small trial population. That is the use of "medicinal mushrooms" . I know this sounds far out, but remember penicillin and all the statin drugs are based on large molecule chemistry from mushrooms.
Various mixes of Cordyceps sinensis, Grifola Frondosa (Maitake) and Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) seem to exert a normalizing effect on immune function overall.
As was probably explained to you, your immune system works to kill anything in your body that is not Karen. Autoimmune defects occur when the immune system can't distinguish between you and not you. The hypothesis with respect immune mitigating agents is that they sharpen the perception of the 250+ components of your immune system, particularly T cells and macrophages, so they are better able to distinguish which cells are yours and which are potential invaders.
Additionally, I would try to find a CAM practitioner and consult with him or her, since there really are no alternatives in conventional medicine that provide any better palliation than the "natural" treatments.
I would very much like to hear the requiem when it is available.
there you are. Missed you. I will come back later. Now I have to finish my new Symphony (the very first one~51 minutes... oh boy quite a lot of notes).
Greetings,
Hi Karen.
I really enjoy your music, you've a great feel for both texture and melody. Your music is also very figurative; the title and the music truly gives you the whole picture. Nice productions aswell, I have the Garritan orchestra with Finale aswell but don't get as much out of it as you do. I use EWQL's symphonic orchestra in my pieces.
Hi Karen, just finished reading the monthly feature on the main page here. Thought I'd drop byI to simply wish you all the success with your forth coming projects.
The theory-practice statement: Yes after my brain caught up to it, it does make perfect sense. Now evaluate the verity of the following statement:
"This statement is false"...is it true or false?
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I am tickled to death to learn that your wonderful music is getting some of the recognition it deserves. Please keep us up to date on any other performances / recordings and especially new work you are doing.. Its Very Very good work.
Happiest of Holidays to you and yours.
Hope to hear more of your music soon!
Best
Bon
Fantastic writing!
I was thinking about building a new system, with 8GB of RAM - the motherboard, processor, memory, and power supply I priced out through Newegg amount to about 600 bucks - pretty cheap. that includes a Windows 64 bit OS, which I believe is necessary to utilize more than 4GB RAM. If I'm wrong, tell me. You're a techie. I built my current system, but only put in 2GB, thinking that was all I'd ever utilize.
Great to meet you and please keep in touch!
Ronnie
Thank you for your thoughtful comments.
As for me, I don’t know the specifics of how I compose. I think it may have something to do with a sense of, compositionally, what ought to come next, but what it is, specifically that informs me of what I think should come next, I am not sure. It’s probably some mix of nature/nurture. I am a white male born in the 20th century so I expect that carries its own set of pre-conceived expectations and notions of what is right or at least inevitable.
More frightening still are the questions about why one composes. I strongly suspect you are right, viewed rationally; the urge to compose is a form of insanity. There is no market for what is produced, the effort is stupendous and the outcome more often than not, dismal.
Is it that the “Composer” is so divorced from reality that he /she/it needs to have the throbbing of drums and the blaring of horns accompany their every step, even if the sound is imaginary? Do we do it because we are convinced that we have something to say? If so, what arrogance. Do we do it because we think our music will somehow make us, or at least our names, immortal? Is it a way of saying “I’m here world, pay attention to me”? And if it is, is that healthy?
As I grow ever older but apparently no wiser, it has become increasingly important to me to try to write with some kind of honesty or integrity. I don’t feel any need to shock anyone or prove versatile or skill though I would not avoid these concepts if I was convinced it contributed to what I was trying to compose.
Honesty, there’s the bugaboo.
I am now in a spot where if I listen to something I’ve done and I start to think, "that’s not bad"… I get a big head and the arrogance of the notion prevents me from getting down to reality. Believe me, when I do that the concept of honesty is on vacation, out to lunch for 6 weeks.
What an improbably task it is to write music or at least music that has some pretense of integrity. One must look at a blank page and try to fill it with things one has made up, but for it to work, the made up things must be real.
Well, sorry for dragging on like this, but it is a topic of interest.
Fred
I listened to part of the Requiem last night and some of your other music as well. You have a great ear, a fine sense of musical structure and a great deal of skill understanding how instruments work and their idiosyncratic use.
It is very very good music. It a delight to hear it.
I will have a chance to listen to the Requem when I get home this evening. Farily good speakers there. Thank you for giving me the opportunity.
Is the ingredient Colostrum? You or your physician may wish to check with a company called Advanced Protein Systems (602-353-8800) Bob Davies President. This is the most credible source of Colostrum product and data that I know of. I met Bob at a trade event in Geneva in May. Very bright and a straight shooter. If anyone knows the potential for Colostrum, including dosages etc., on this situation, it would be him.
Fred
Thank you for your very gracious words about American Songs.
I was dismayed to learn of your autoimmune condition. As my bio points out, i've spent my life in the pharmaceutical industry but have an abiding interest in so called Alternative Medicine, sometimes called CAM (Complimentary and Alternatiuve Medicine).
There really is nothing in the conventional pharmaceutical inventory that is long term safe and effective at mitigating this situation. Similarly the products in Alternative Medicine have at best mixed results and are not subject to the same clinical oversight as Rx products.
There is, however, one possible avenue that has shown some good results in a very small trial population. That is the use of "medicinal mushrooms" . I know this sounds far out, but remember penicillin and all the statin drugs are based on large molecule chemistry from mushrooms.
Various mixes of Cordyceps sinensis, Grifola Frondosa (Maitake) and Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) seem to exert a normalizing effect on immune function overall.
As was probably explained to you, your immune system works to kill anything in your body that is not Karen. Autoimmune defects occur when the immune system can't distinguish between you and not you. The hypothesis with respect immune mitigating agents is that they sharpen the perception of the 250+ components of your immune system, particularly T cells and macrophages, so they are better able to distinguish which cells are yours and which are potential invaders.
Additionally, I would try to find a CAM practitioner and consult with him or her, since there really are no alternatives in conventional medicine that provide any better palliation than the "natural" treatments.
I would very much like to hear the requiem when it is available.
Best
Fred
May I invite you to listen to "American Songs" now posted on my home page. Not as elegant as your stuff.. but what the heck.
Thanks
I really enjoyed listening.
there you are. Missed you. I will come back later. Now I have to finish my new Symphony (the very first one~51 minutes... oh boy quite a lot of notes).
Greetings,
Raymond
I really enjoy your music, you've a great feel for both texture and melody. Your music is also very figurative; the title and the music truly gives you the whole picture. Nice productions aswell, I have the Garritan orchestra with Finale aswell but don't get as much out of it as you do. I use EWQL's symphonic orchestra in my pieces.
Hope to hear from you
Patrik
I stopped by for more listening. What are the damages USD for the Finale-Garritan package you're using, and what kind of RAM requirements?
Take care.
Craig.
"This statement is false"...is it true or false?
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