Jingle Gamma Bells (Happy New Ear)

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

Jingle Bells retuned to Carlos Gamma and played with an Opal Chameleon just in time for the holidays. Read my blog for details: http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/93d1553538122dc28f0bb1f5a46fedeb-86.html

Excellent work!

I wonder why so few people now comment on music posted here or the tuning
list. At one point every single piece posted had several comments. Now many
go by with no comments at all.

Perhaps the audience has reached the point of saturation?

Chris

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Carlo <carlo@...> wrote:

>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHrESeeUEGk
>
> Jingle Bells retuned to Carlos Gamma and played with an Opal Chameleon just
> in time for the holidays. Read my blog for details:
> http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/93d1553538122dc28f0bb1f5a46fedeb-86.html
>
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Many years ago I was afraid of such situation. On one side we have such media like internet to spread our ideas, thoughts, art etc... On the other side people are more isolated and lose lot of time with pure crap (like Facebook, writing or reading blogs or so). In my bad dreams I have seen everybody sitting at the computer, making his/her own music works, blogs, novels, poems, graphic art, etc., publishing it on the net, but nobody is interested, because everybody has enough work with his/her own business and life... No time, space and energy to accept and enjoy works of the other. No dialogue and socializing, just millions of monologues which nobody is reacting on. No more reason for connecting computers together - we'll get the same result with independent computers without a net. Maybe such times are here. Call it saturation, or final agony of this world... which is so fragile - imagine just that something will happen with electricity... So I still keep some acoustic instruments for all cases :-), you never know...

As for me - in everyday fight for my daily bread there's no time for listening much music, being it master works or some compositional attempts, or even to comment it and give advices. My time here is limited and the more older I am, hours runs somehow faster and faster, so I try to keep control to which I invest my precious time. I still haven't heard lot of high quality music of real masters of the past and try to do it right now, always being surprised by some newly found personalities (recently Dowland, Purcell, Mateis, Bonporti, Rameau - just to name few of Baroque composers). Besides I have lot of my own work to do as multistyle composer, arranger, performer and concert artist, improviser, recording artist, music and languages teacher, music writer, musicologist, linguist, translator... - always behind schedule and numerous plans. Count in two little children, who have their needs of father's time (and I really enjoy to be with them being in my 50ies), necessity to learn quite new life and language (I'm expat who started from zero after moving to Japan in 2003)...

More times I did humble attempts to offer my works here or elsewhere to listening and comments, no reaction. But I'm not surprised or dissapointed. That's reality of contemporary world, no reason to complain. Frankly said I'm not so much interested in opinions from common people, or music hobbyist. Their "I like it/I don't like it" can't help me to make my music better. Only opinion of the person with the same or better level of education and experience could help, or such of the person who I personally admire and evaluate highly. And lot of people also lost the ability to judge what's really good or wrong in the art, and also ability to be deeply touched and surprised by art (lack of art and emotional education). So I continue to live in my own isle, working mainly for myself, and trying to improve what I can improve in myself and the world near me.

Daniel Forro

On 22 Dec 2010, at 12:32 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:

> Excellent work!
>
> I wonder why so few people now comment on music posted here or the > tuning
> list. At one point every single piece posted had several comments. > Now many
> go by with no comments at all.
>
> Perhaps the audience has reached the point of saturation?
>
> Chris

the funny thing is that I have seen Chris' comment about my piece only on Daniel's reply.
so, probably comments are written but somehow disappear!
ahahah!
I guess we all crave for affection, don't we?

Carlo

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> wrote:
>
> Many years ago I was afraid of such situation....

>
> Daniel Forro
>
>
> On 22 Dec 2010, at 12:32 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:
>
> > Excellent work!
> >
> > I wonder why so few people now comment on music posted here or the
> > tuning
> > list. At one point every single piece posted had several comments.
> > Now many
> > go by with no comments at all.
> >
> > Perhaps the audience has reached the point of saturation?
> >
> > Chris
>

...and thanks for watching/listening Chris!
:-)
Carlo

> >
> > On 22 Dec 2010, at 12:32 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:
> >
> > > Excellent work!
> > >
> > > I wonder why so few people now comment on music posted here or the
> > > tuning
> > > list. At one point every single piece posted had several comments.
> > > Now many
> > > go by with no comments at all.
> > >
> > > Perhaps the audience has reached the point of saturation?
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
>

I think you have covered the everyday dilemma quite well here~

/^_,',',',_ //^/Kraig Grady_^_,',',',_
Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere:
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',

a momentary antenna as i turn to water
this evaporates - an island once again

On 22/12/10 4:25 PM, Daniel Forr� wrote:
>
> Many years ago I was afraid of such situation. On one side we > have
> such media like internet to spread our ideas, thoughts, art > etc... On
> the other side people are more isolated and lose lot of time with
> pure crap (like Facebook, writing or reading blogs or so). In > my bad
> dreams I have seen everybody sitting at the computer, making > his/her
> own music works, blogs, novels, poems, graphic art, etc., > publishing
> it on the net, but nobody is interested, because everybody has > enough
> work with his/her own business and life... No time, space and > energy
> to accept and enjoy works of the other. No dialogue and > socializing,
> just millions of monologues which nobody is reacting on. No more
> reason for connecting computers together - we'll get the same > result
> with independent computers without a net. Maybe such times are > here.
> Call it saturation, or final agony of this world... which is so
> fragile - imagine just that something will happen with > electricity...
> So I still keep some acoustic instruments for all cases :-), you
> never know...
>
> As for me - in everyday fight for my daily bread there's no > time for
> listening much music, being it master works or some compositional
> attempts, or even to comment it and give advices. My time here is
> limited and the more older I am, hours runs somehow faster and
> faster, so I try to keep control to which I invest my precious > time.
> I still haven't heard lot of high quality music of real > masters of
> the past and try to do it right now, always being surprised by > some
> newly found personalities (recently Dowland, Purcell, Mateis,
> Bonporti, Rameau - just to name few of Baroque composers). > Besides I
> have lot of my own work to do as multistyle composer, arranger,
> performer and concert artist, improviser, recording artist, > music and
> languages teacher, music writer, musicologist, linguist,
> translator... - always behind schedule and numerous plans. > Count in
> two little children, who have their needs of father's time (and I
> really enjoy to be with them being in my 50ies), necessity to > learn
> quite new life and language (I'm expat who started from zero > after
> moving to Japan in 2003)...
>
> More times I did humble attempts to offer my works here or > elsewhere
> to listening and comments, no reaction. But I'm not surprised or
> dissapointed. That's reality of contemporary world, no reason to
> complain. Frankly said I'm not so much interested in opinions > from
> common people, or music hobbyist. Their "I like it/I don't > like it"
> can't help me to make my music better. Only opinion of the person
> with the same or better level of education and experience > could help,
> or such of the person who I personally admire and evaluate > highly.
> And lot of people also lost the ability to judge what's really > good
> or wrong in the art, and also ability to be deeply touched and
> surprised by art (lack of art and emotional education). So I
> continue to live in my own isle, working mainly for myself, and
> trying to improve what I can improve in myself and the world > near me.
>
> Daniel Forro
>
> On 22 Dec 2010, at 12:32 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:
>
> > Excellent work!
> >
> > I wonder why so few people now comment on music posted here > or the
> > tuning
> > list. At one point every single piece posted had several > comments.
> > Now many
> > go by with no comments at all.
> >
> > Perhaps the audience has reached the point of saturation?
> >
> > Chris
>
>