[cm] Re: a mail collab

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> I've got a couple of pieces from a punk jazz power trio
collaboration
> with (then 15-years-old) Bronx, NY drummer and B-boying breakdancer
> Mike Seda... two movements of a Solo Guitar Suite that attempts to
> synthesize a language drawn from somewhere between Art Tatum's
> Summertime and Schoenberg's Op. 11... two movements of The Turntable
> Quartet... a bass drum and guitar trio demo that tries to take the
> aforementioned Op. 11 language over to free-jazz... and a longish
> electro-acoustic piece for homemade instruments and tape treatments
> that was loosely based on Ives' wonderfully descriptive blueprint of
> the Universe Symphony in the Memos...
>
> Where can I put them? I guess I'm going with Lycos unless somebody
> has a better idea...
>
> Any better, or different ideas to try?
> --Dan Stearns

Yikes! That sounds like a bunch of cool music. I know you shut down
your station on mp3.com. Is there a reason you can't put them there,
othere than the long lead time?

John Starrett

> I've just uploaded a tiny tune, under a minute in fact, in
> the files section here in that strange but over-represented
> tuning, 12-tet. (Hey Darreg is quoted in the list charter as
> saying there are no bad tunings, right... okay, sorry, it's
> brief... I won't do it again... etc.)

Wow Dan, you rock!

That brings up an interesting philosophical question of
whether you should be allowed to call that 12tET.

I mean, if we allow that to happen then we might as
well just call any tuning we happen to be using
whatever we want. :-)

> Remember that the drummer was a 15-year-old kid who had never
> really heard much of any jazz per se, and note how he kind of
> winds up taking an uptempo swing beat like a breakdancing
> Texas two-step, or a krakowiak (on crack) or something...
> perfect!

Are you the drummer or the guitarist? The
guitar reminds me of your work for some reason.

- Jeff