concert piece for 100 metronomes

[JHC]

To move on, I hope this doesn't make you sore (saw).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhu6ba5ihbw


Margaret

That is magnifico, in particular the tuning session which sounded so much like some modern stuff, I did enjoy that Margaret thanks

[Contratrombone64]

Dear Robin, I'd like to apologise for my negativity, I promise I'll pull my head in ...

[Corno Dolce]

Dearest RoJo,

I opened my big, fat gob and really plunged this thread into an obverse ascension - My sincerest apologies for this unfortunate turn of events

cd

Time for a snifter of a certain single malt

Anyone for *A Waltz For 100 Chainsaws* by Freddie *Riptorn* Krueger?

[rojo]

No need to apologize to me, guys. You're both certainly entitled to your opinions, and are free to express them here, be they positive or negative. As is everyone.

I guess it's just that I'm in agreement with some guy (who seems to have been on the receiving end of most of the harshness in this thread,) in that I don't see the need to denigrate a piece of music. At least not without some reason why other than "I don't like it," or "this is rubbish."

But then, perhaps my comments regarding you guys being a drag is equally, or perhaps more reprehensible. Therefore, my apologies.

*sigh*

Anyway, perhaps we'd be best to move on.

I do agree with J.H.C. in that I think Margaret has got us headed in an interesting new direction; ha, I actually went on the hunt for a classical work using a saw, any kind of saw, and came up empty handed. Darn it.

I'll keep looking.

[Montefalco]

If you go to youtube and type in 'car horn orchestra', the second result isa news report about a concerto for ute horn and orchestra by Australian professor Mike Atherton. Not quite saws, but still interesting enough. I haven't been able to find a full version, though.

[marval]

I am glad people enjoyed the saws.


Margaret

[JHC]

Margaret it was very well done and I suspect they were musical saws https://www.musicalsaw.com/catalog/order1.php which are musical instruments, But perhaps they were genuine old rip saws anyway at least it was music which is more than could be said for the con job of the Metro Gnomes

[Contratrombone64]

J.H.C. - do you have a cold?

[JHC]

I wondered how long before someone noticed, I bumped it getting into the car

[Contratrombone64]

Do you mean: you bumped it on the ceiling getting out of bed (more likely)?

[some guy]

...at least it was music which is more than could be said for the con job of the Metro Gnomes

Ligeti's piece may be many things. Unless the meaning of "con job" has changed drastically in the last week or two.

Hard to imagine how any work could be a con job. I suppose that a program note or some other commentary on it could be. But the piece itself? It's not pretending to be anything other than it is. It's not trying to trick you or get money out of you. It's just itself, a group of machines making sounds that create rhythmical patterns, which result simply from the setup, not from any notation.

You may or may not like the idea. You may or may not like the results. But whatever is happening to you, being conned is not one of them.

[JHC]

Hi some guy, it is nice to see your back I want to reply but I may get into trouble