At 07:29 PM 4/6/06 +0200, Michael Cook wrote: >Do you know any human musician who can play that exactly as written?
This is interesting. I didn't expect this to generate any controversy at all ... well, I expected some from John Howell. :) Seriously, this composer has been working on these kinds of pieces for a very long time, and is legendary in simple (yes, simple) rhythmic reconstructions like that. His performers seem to be able to handle the subtleties once they let go of the strictures of received rhythmic thinking -- and yes, he plays his own pieces, and his music is recorded and commercially available. He works in both tunings and rhythms that make little immediate sense from a traditional Western music perspective, but fall right into place once you 'get' them. By the way, you could rewrite this in 210/105 and it would look incredibly nasty. But in 8/4 with displaced tuplets, it's pretty clear. (Actually, I suggested to the composer that keeping the tuplets overlapping but distinct would help. I haven't heard back.) Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
