Re: Most Fortuinately: Music

Jacky,

Thank you for your many superlatives about the CD I
sent along! May I quote you in future press releases
(yeah, I'm serious)?

>>(In some places I think I might be hearing
some GRM Tools in there...?)

You're not. Most of the synthesis on that recording
was done on my Kurzweil K2000 with sampler.
(Branchings and all the Clavette pieces used it). I
almost always start with a standard Kurzweil ROM sound
and edit the tuning and occasionally some other
parameters. Aki No Iro was done using a Yamaha TX802.
Untitled #3 was done with 2 Yamaha PF80 (FM)
electronic pianos, Yamaha effect processor, and
(obviously) sequencer. Some of the synthesis effects
in Branchings and Untitled #3 result from the speed of
attack of the notes, sometimes up 50/second (50 Hz),
all done via sequencer.

Thanks of course to my ol' co-conspirator Kris Peck in
Minneapolis for his guitar work (and 20-tone JI elec.
guitar) on the Endangered Species recording.

>>Am I the first to hear it?
You're one of the few to get this noncommercial
edition, along with Ezra Sims, the Cambridge, MA
72-ish composer. But I had the pleasure to visit with
Paul Erlich Thurs. night, and left him a copy.
And of course I have all of these pieces in one or
another live show I've done over the years.
I hope to release a for-sale album including most
of those pieces by late 2003, and then tour a few
places with it. But I'd hope to play live here and
there over that period as well.
I also hope to put some sizeable excerpts of these
pieces up to my website later this year.

Yours truly,
Harold

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