polymicrotnal Ives

For anyone who might be interested:

The Housatonic at Stockbridge
http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/

Play it LOUD!

Dan!

{you wrote...}
>For anyone who might be interested:

Damn you - one of the musos that can drag me back in!!!

>The Housatonic at Stockbridge
>http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/
>
>Play it LOUD!

Yay hay! Crank it up and don't listen like a Rollo, right? Boy it does my heart good to know we still have folks making music that is gritty, messy, full of knots and tangles, ungainly creatures dancing with grace beyond compare. I have to think that Mr. Ives would have approved...

Is this recent work? Are you doing all this in current times, or is this an older track? No matter, I just hope the sentiments are still there when you *do* make music now-a-days.

Cheers,
Jon

Thanks JON!
This is old, kind of a precursor to Day Walks In, but I'm certainly
still at it--infact, my new 13-tet ukulele is done and the UPS man
should drop it to the door any day now! Thanks again, and keep
fighting the good fightDAN
--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Jonathan M. Szanto"
<JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> Dan!
>
> {you wrote...}
> >For anyone who might be interested:
>
> Damn you - one of the musos that can drag me back in!!!
>
> >The Housatonic at Stockbridge
> >http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/
> >
> >Play it LOUD!
>
> Yay hay! Crank it up and don't listen like a Rollo, right? Boy it
does my
> heart good to know we still have folks making music that is gritty,
messy,
> full of knots and tangles, ungainly creatures dancing with grace
beyond
> compare. I have to think that Mr. Ives would have approved...
>
> Is this recent work? Are you doing all this in current times, or is
this an
> older track? No matter, I just hope the sentiments are still there
when you
> *do* make music now-a-days.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon

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

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<daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
> For anyone who might be interested:
>
> The Housatonic at Stockbridge
> http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/
>
> Play it LOUD!

***Well, this is neat, but I fail to see the association with the
Ives, except maybe for a 4-note motive somewhere in the middle...

J. Pehrson

Hi Joseph,that's funny! The Housatonic is really one of my all-time
favorite pieces of music, and while Ives' version--a kind of
polytonal impressionism with mystic Americanisms--is about as perfect
a piece as he ever composed, I wanted to try something different. So
my arrangement is a kind of an odd cyber punk take on it I guess, but
it is built EXCLUSIVELY on material from the Ives.
Ives composed the orchestral version first and the song reduction
later, but it was the song version that I heard first and this
arrangement was a kind of re-orchestrating of the song material
rather than a mimicking of the original orchestral version. BTW that
little mystic piano tattoo is very similar to something I used in
another piece of mine, In the Shade of a Birch, an idea I lifted from
the end of Ives' Concord Sonata.
Thanks,Dan

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson"
<jpehrson@r...> wrote:
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
>
> /makemicromusic/topicId_7428.html#7428
>
> <daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
> > For anyone who might be interested:
> >
> > The Housatonic at Stockbridge
> > http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/
> >
> > Play it LOUD!
>
>
> ***Well, this is neat, but I fail to see the association with the
> Ives, except maybe for a 4-note motive somewhere in the middle...
>
> J. Pehrson

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

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<daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
> Hi Joseph,that's funny! The Housatonic is really one of my all-time
> favorite pieces of music, and while Ives' version--a kind of
> polytonal impressionism with mystic Americanisms--is about as
perfect
> a piece as he ever composed, I wanted to try something different.
So
> my arrangement is a kind of an odd cyber punk take on it I guess,
but
> it is built EXCLUSIVELY on material from the Ives.

***Hi Dan!

That *is* funny... I guess I'll have to listen to it again more
closely...

best,

Joseph

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson"
<jpehrson@r...> wrote:

> ***Well, this is neat, but I fail to see the association with the
> Ives, except maybe for a 4-note motive somewhere in the middle...

It sounded like a heavy-metal cover of Ives to me.