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Kitty Composer; ...puts us all to shame!
Topic Started: Oct 11 2006, 08:25 AM (107 Views)
The 89th Key
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Not really. :P

http://youtube.com/watch?v=orLpZxEd24Y
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Frank_W
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:lol2: "Kitten On The Keys." Looks like a Maine Coon that I used to have... Wonderful cat... :)
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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DivaDeb
HOLY CARP!!!
I have heard a lot worse!
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Dave Spelvin
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Had to post this. From Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker:

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Kyle Gann has uncovered, on the archives of YouTube, a brief but striking untitled composition for one electronic keyboard. It is risky to attempt an analysis of such an intricate musical conception after only a few auditions, but I am ready to hail this fluffy young composer's work as a captivating and utterly fresh synthesis of late twentieth-century minimalist tendencies with the chromatic language of canonical European modernism. Observe the remarkably fluid yet unexpected way in which he or she segues from relaxed, recumbent "long-tone" sonorities of the La Monte Young / early Terry Riley type to a more agitated, distracted, quasi-Webernian vocabulary, all by way of an interlocking network of fleet-fingered — or should one say fleet-pawed — interval leaps. Toward the end, a surprisingly dark atmosphere develops, as a sudden plunge to low E-flat conjures up the funerary mood of Tristan's death. All registers are kept active and the thematic material is handled with superb economy. The gestures have the freedom of improvisation, yet everything seems deliberate. The ending is hauntingly abrupt, almost cavalier. A miniature masterpiece. Meow.


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DivaDeb
HOLY CARP!!!
Dave Spelvin
Oct 13 2006, 10:12 AM
Had to post this. From Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker:

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Kyle Gann has uncovered, on the archives of YouTube, a brief but striking untitled composition for one electronic keyboard. It is risky to attempt an analysis of such an intricate musical conception after only a few auditions, but I am ready to hail this fluffy young composer's work as a captivating and utterly fresh synthesis of late twentieth-century minimalist tendencies with the chromatic language of canonical European modernism. Observe the remarkably fluid yet unexpected way in which he or she segues from relaxed, recumbent "long-tone" sonorities of the La Monte Young / early Terry Riley type to a more agitated, distracted, quasi-Webernian vocabulary, all by way of an interlocking network of fleet-fingered — or should one say fleet-pawed — interval leaps. Toward the end, a surprisingly dark atmosphere develops, as a sudden plunge to low E-flat conjures up the funerary mood of Tristan's death. All registers are kept active and the thematic material is handled with superb economy. The gestures have the freedom of improvisation, yet everything seems deliberate. The ending is hauntingly abrupt, almost cavalier. A miniature masterpiece. Meow.


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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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LWpianistin
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HOLY CARP!!!
AAAAWWW!!

He's so cute. Looks a lot like my cat.
And how are you today?
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