tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post1537176298624031938..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: Co-composingDaniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-42524274162262189372007-07-27T20:06:00.000+02:002007-07-27T20:06:00.000+02:00Samuel,Please do put the recording online!Samuel,<BR/><BR/>Please do put the recording online!Daniel Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-58032405617978630212007-07-27T20:05:00.000+02:002007-07-27T20:05:00.000+02:00Charles, Fenby's work is often described as "trans...Charles, <BR/><BR/>Fenby's work is often described as "transcription" and Fendby's book (<I>Delius as I knew him</I> Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-28768-5) seems to confirm that, but it would be interesting to read a description from an informed third party.<BR/><BR/>(As long as we're talking Delius, I can recommend Don Gillespie's musicological detective story, <I>The Search for Thomas Ward, Teacher of Frederick Delius</I>, an important missing chapter in American music history)Daniel Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-49272153646002997182007-07-27T19:29:00.000+02:002007-07-27T19:29:00.000+02:00Some years ago the Cabrillo Festival performed a n...Some years ago the Cabrillo Festival performed a number of Exquisite Corpses composed by Lou Harrison, Virgil Thomson, John Cage, and memory doesn't serve, all orchestrated for a small instrumental ensemble by Robert Hughes. I would love to hear them again; they were wonderful. Perhaps Other Minds has the tape.<BR/><BR/>On a slightly related subject, what about the music of Frederick Delius, written with the aid of an amanuensis, Eric Fenby? How did that actually work?Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-34855967297801480292007-07-27T00:06:00.000+02:002007-07-27T00:06:00.000+02:00Outside of notated compositions, the practice is v...Outside of notated compositions, the practice is very common among electronic composers, where sound files are traded back and forth, sometimes for years before a composition is complete. Carl Stone and Otomo Yoshihide released a whole album like this, but I'm sure there are many many examples. A recent variation is by the improv group MIMEO, whose most recent release called for each of the eleven members of the group to put five minutes of music somewhere on a 60-minute CDR, with the final result assembled by overlaying the various tracks. MIMEO's model was painter Cy Twombly's practice of drawing blindfolded, but it's an interesting form of collaborative composition.Caleb Deupreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14013497049609718830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-51797080637003590532007-07-26T22:52:00.000+02:002007-07-26T22:52:00.000+02:00That reminds me! I had a very nice collaboration o...That reminds me! I had a very nice collaboration one day with four other composers in which we all wrote pieces using only one pitch in a pentatonic scale. Also, we all brought our own ensemble, for a bizarre orchestra of flute, bass-clarinet, contrabassoon, violin, off-stage violin, bass guitar, electric guitar, four acoustic guitars, piano, three singers, one untrained singer, speaking voice and video - with each of the five pieces simply being performed at the same time. Which gave a wonderful total sound. Since it's extremely unlikely ever to be performed again, perhaps I should put the recording online now...Samuel Vriezenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225noreply@blogger.com