Re: listening test

hi jeff!

> Paul,
>
> I'd like to apologize to you.
>
> I've been listening to your pieces quite a bit over the last few
months and
> I'm starting to like the direction you are taking artistically.

are you talking to me? did you actually manage to download those
clips from abfreeradio? those are the only things i've posted in the
last few months, and i'd call them more "drunken improvisations"
than "pieces".

> I hope you
> will continue to grow and hone your skills, there's some real
potential
> there and I can see that you've improved a lot. It's great to see
that
> you're focusing on the music more nowadays and it definitely shows.

thanks, but i'm quite puzzled as to what you could have heard that
represents this. have you been secretly coming to my gigs in boston?

perhaps jacky ligon gave you a copy of the 3-song stretch demo cd.
that would probably come closest to what you're describing, though
it's well over a year old now, finds my guitar chops at their nadir,
and isn't microtonal.

> Anyway, I misjudged you and I apologize.

well, apology accepted, but i wonder what i did to deserve the
redemption! anyway, i can say with almost complete confidence, "you
ain't heard noth'n yet!"

as for misjudging, perhaps you went by something you-know-who wrote
about me? well, even if i never played one note on an instrument in
my life (my neighbors' fondest dreams, let me tell you), i'm pretty
proud of what's going on with some of my purely intellectual tuning
constructs, in the hands of people such as composer joseph pehrson
and 'cellist dan barrett. shouldn't this sort of thing, research and
development behind the scenes that feeds into what musicians are
doing, be deemed worthy in and of itself?

peace to you brother!

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "wallyesterpaulrus"

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> as for misjudging, perhaps you went by something you-know-who wrote
> about me? well, even if i never played one note on an instrument in
> my life (my neighbors' fondest dreams, let me tell you), i'm pretty
> proud of what's going on with some of my purely intellectual tuning
> constructs, in the hands of people such as composer joseph pehrson
> and 'cellist dan barrett. shouldn't this sort of thing, research
and
> development behind the scenes that feeds into what musicians are
> doing, be deemed worthy in and of itself?
>

***Yes, of course, it as as well as greatly appreciated!

Joseph