Perspective my dear readers, yes this is what this Meg is looking for. That and the understanding of Balance. School Job Life whatever drives me and somewhat unbalances some things. Interesting overall. I have so many huge opportunities and things on my plate right now I must keep my ducks in a row. Its incredible, its exhilarating, this realization is overwhelming at times. But no, step back realize and let it all happen, interact with it and move on. That concert, all that work leading up to it really has put me in an incredible place.
So what? Now it's the next thing! We have decided to shoot a movie of the concert, another run on Monday, I look forward to it. Who knows where the movie will lead. My new project is going to cover the composer Stephen Hartke. I have quickly realized that this is going to be a new kind of research for me. Hardly anything is written about him, so I suppose I will have to go to the source! Very interesting, and will help set me up for my view on an Italian composer later this year and early next. As for class projects I am trying to pick a Beethoven late string quartet, either 127 or 135, though I might change my mind. For Music Sem it's back to Monteverdi. I had a really great topic on friday but quickly shot it down since the gombert influence wasn't as apparent as I hoped within the Vespers. It might be, but overall a cloudy topic. What now? Humanism and Monteverdi? Venice and Monteverdi? Monteverdi and the Gonzagas? Well, it looks like I have my work cut out for me tomorrow before I hit the hill! Oh what else.. Feature Writing has really gotten my writing tight. To write all the time and edit and edit other papers and experience the workshopping process has been awesome. I am starting and incredible project in Advanced English Comp where I am looking at Ray Kurzweil's idea of the Singularity through nanotechnology AI and how just maybe this little computer might some day exceed the power of my own brain. Sure where does that leave us! I hope to investigate these ideas and their possibility as well as social impact.
Electro-Acoustic, the class I am TAing for, is incredible, really gets my composing muscle going. Artists like The Books, Animal Collective, Psapp, Imogen Heap have really influenced my idea of sound and have opened up a whole new approaches to taking what I hear in my head and some how expressing it to the world. And of course Stockhausen, Cage, Reich are all there constantly on my mind as well. I am delving into Max/MSP a little as well as Live. I am really looking forward to using Max this week, using some of the objects i can find on the net create some great sound. Very interesting time. I started the framework for the first song in the Italian Catalogs (I think its going to be one of the last in the grouping of pieces, because I am using a sample from Rome). I feel like a rip off of Eno and Liszt! Who cares! I already ripped off the BACH, thats what composing is! I was sitting up in the music lab and I heard these two cars honking at each other. I replicated the intervals and rhythm on the keyboard and quickly recorded it. (Thank you Mr. Cage...) Then Jennie came and visited me and listened to the very rough sketch track and approved highly when I talked about how I wanted to arrange it for string quartet. She also offered her quartet, Mt. Blue String Quartet, to possibly premiere it. HA! There's something to shoot for! Jennie and I are also going to start an electro-acoustic violin duo, I have a lot of ideas and she was incredibly taken by the idea when we came up with it making paper machet masks at the Art Renegades. The Renegades are awesome, seriously the Art/Music/Creative think tank of the university right now. So many ideas so little time! My neighbor and photographer extraordinare Melissa has asked me to possibly compose a guitar work for her Senior Art show at the gallery. Still up in the air but wonderful. So yeah, all of a sudden I've become really popular at the whole music thing. HA! I know I shouldn't even say that! But! It's incredible, Ive never had this life before! Never had such a busy yet - managable, I can think things out and absorb - life before. It's nice.
