Awarding micro . .

The piece is great, as we all know. But I do find it amazing that such a thing got past the usual channels of silent academic censorship (i.e. implicit assumptions). Usually there'd be someone saying, "yeah, but who will play this? We can't just give an award to some MIDI realization?"

And then yet another bland-ass string quartet (YABASQ) ends up winning.

Who were the judges?

>> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith"
>> <genewardsmith@...> wrote:
>> Did you just submit an mp3 file to the contest or what?

Well, it's funny. The contest was mainly judged on written scores. I
had no score (had been planning something with Sagittal, never got
around to it). The rules said that if the piece has an electronic
component that's un-notatable, then a recording of that part could be
sent. All-electronic pieces are technically allowed but rarely have
won. But I told them it was for (acoustic) microtonal player piano,
which unfortunately doesn't exist yet.

But I had no score. (It was only suggested later to print out a piano
roll type thing from a sequencer) So all they had to go on was a CD.