tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517691985116316200.post7750944961559943665..comments2023-03-28T05:41:27.305-07:00Comments on Erling Wold: Denisova-Kornienko DuoErling Woldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415381218771416011noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517691985116316200.post-81194172358495687052009-06-22T20:18:07.304-07:002009-06-22T20:18:07.304-07:00Boy, Erling, we should really talk sometime, we...Boy, Erling, we should really talk sometime, we're so on the same wavelength. I think you and I are among the people (or generation) who so internalized irregularity that we need never fear that we're getting too simple - the furthest we can go in that direction, we could always go a little further and still be pretty way out.Kyle Gannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15654626779478007970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517691985116316200.post-35391381008716027962009-06-21T12:37:22.025-07:002009-06-21T12:37:22.025-07:00Kyle: whew! Obviously I shouldn't live in quit...Kyle: whew! Obviously I shouldn't live in quite so much fear of you, but even under the eyes of my own personal watchful composition judge, I worry whether I'm being too blocky, i.e., harmony 1 to harmony 2 to harmony 3 to etc, and I worry that I'm using a 4 chord sequence - 4 being such a typical phrase - and I worry that, even though I am using quintuplets and more, most of the actual note patterns are starting and stopping in lockstep with the beat. My composition judge, who seems to be stuck in a high modern post-war mindset, says: "be more complicated, complexity engenders respect, obfuscate everything more and more and more." When I was a student I made a point of having no events anywhere line up with anything. I obliterated regularity in the Elliot Carter way, as you reference, with Xs in the times of Y of all sorts careening across the barlines bracketing all sorts of dots and flags scattered about inside. I'm sensitive to the idea that I've moved too far in the other direction.Erling Woldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18415381218771416011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517691985116316200.post-69082563026074119902009-06-21T12:09:16.210-07:002009-06-21T12:09:16.210-07:00Michael: good to hear it's playable. I did pl...Michael: good to hear it's playable. I did place my fingers on a properly scaled diagram of the fingerboard just to see if I was way off, but not being a violinist one is never quite sure. I assumed Elena would give me a talking to if I messed up and then I could adjust.Erling Woldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18415381218771416011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517691985116316200.post-30395131847628736332009-06-21T07:01:17.221-07:002009-06-21T07:01:17.221-07:00Well heavens, Erling, you do all the same kinds of...Well heavens, Erling, you do all the same kinds of things I do in that situation to create rhythmic variety and obscure the bar line: the alternation of meters, the off-beat accompaniment, the quintuplets and quadruplets across the measure. Were you my student I'd pat you on the back and say, "Superb! What next?"Kyle Gannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15654626779478007970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517691985116316200.post-34249943971196794272009-06-21T05:03:37.064-07:002009-06-21T05:03:37.064-07:00The violn part certainly isn't easy. It's ...The violn part certainly isn't easy. It's playable, though, with the notes ranging across all four strings in the vicinity of 3rd and 5th positions.Michael Czeiszpergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635137257032997850noreply@blogger.com