Welcome, August Champlin!

Greetings August,

Your music has some very nice qualities. Thanks for sharing.

Very best,

Larry Elliott

Glad you found time to listen to that!

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Thanks August for the feedback on Skating. I've been trying to "humanize" it. Much of the feedback I've gotten on this and other forums, is that it sounds too computerized. Being rather complex, this is proving to be quite a process. I'm torn between spending time doing that, and working on other things to post. I'm leaning toward the latter, as I can always go back later and try to perfect the earlier posts. So hopefully you will see something else relatively soon!

On June 16, you wrote, " I was just listening to your music. I especially enjoyed listening to Quantum Concatenations. It is unified and coherent, yet it occupies a musical territory of its own."

I wanted to reply to you earlier, but I was out of town for a while, and then very busy until recently.

Thank you very much for your generous assessment of Quantum Concatenations.    

Given your musical sophistication and overall experience, I take it as a very high compliment.   

I liked what you said to Bruce Baldwin in one of your replies  to comments:

"Thanks for the comment, Bruch! Yeah, I was worried about one of the motives sounding too similar Bartok. I even asked my composition instructor if I was getting a little too close to Bartok, especially in the anguished descending motive; however, he generously framed it as an allusion. :)"

I am not sure anyone can get "too close to Bartok" today, in overall style.  Some musicologists say that there is something almost "syntactically Hungarian," is his idiom, so unless you speak fluent Hungarian, and think in Hungarian, you are unlikely to fall into an imitation trap.  

I was re-reading a section from McHard's book on the Philosophy of Modern Music, and he admonishes modern composers, citing  Iannis Xenakis and Julio Estrada as exemplars; and tells us, we should always do something new, different and original in each work.

That will keep us from imitating Bartok or anyone else, if it is a special worry.

Here is a "spectral view" of Xenakis' "Metastasis," if you haven't heard it yet, or are looking for inspiration.

Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis (Spectral View)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2O8bMlEijg

Thanks again, for your encouragement.

O.

Thanks for your comment about Sunshiny Day! More to come!

Aves is thoroughly enjoyable!  Thanx 4 sharing.