new recording "Wild Wild West"

There is a "new" recording of my piece for 7 instruments, "Wild Wild
West" up on Soundclick.

Well, it's "new" to me... the Archaeus Ensemble who performed this
piece 4 times in Romania and Eastern Europe never sent me a tape,
although I asked for it more than once.

They recently performed the piece again, and I was in touch about a
tape. Curiously, the performance and recording from 1999 which I
never had and which is now up, is the better of the two.

There is microtonality in this piece, although not *systematic*
microtonality... but rather quartertones and such like. Still, it's
only about 6 minutes of your time, and they do a nice job playing it:

http://www.soundclick.com/pro/default.cfm?
bandid=104245&songid=923544&content=song

J. Pehrson

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> http://www.soundclick.com/pro/default.cfm?
> bandid=104245&songid=923544&content=song
>
> J. Pehrson

****Hmmm. I see that didn't work very well.

Try:

http://www.soundclick.com/josephpehrson

It's about the 5th one down, "Wild, Wild West..."

JP

On Sunday 28 November 2004 01:33 pm, Joseph Pehrson wrote:
> There is a "new" recording of my piece for 7 instruments, "Wild Wild
> West" up on Soundclick.
>
> Well, it's "new" to me... the Archaeus Ensemble who performed this
> piece 4 times in Romania and Eastern Europe never sent me a tape,
> although I asked for it more than once.
>
> They recently performed the piece again, and I was in touch about a
> tape. Curiously, the performance and recording from 1999 which I
> never had and which is now up, is the better of the two.
>
> There is microtonality in this piece, although not *systematic*
> microtonality... but rather quartertones and such like. Still, it's
> only about 6 minutes of your time, and they do a nice job playing it:

Joseph,

Wow! I loved it! Great piece, and great performance, from what I can tell.

There's a wonderfully strange 'stop' at 3:38 that sounds like a single
harmonica like note....nice! Like the cadenza for violin leading into a
'recap' of sorts. I love the ending that just ends!

I could see this type of thing in a Hitchcock-ian suspense movie soundtrack
ala Bernard Hermann. It's very intense and suspenseful music to me, but also
kind of madcap (in a sick-humor kind of way) at the same time.

This goes on the repeat listening list!

Cheers,
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.dividebypi.com

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"

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<akjmicro@c...> wrote:
> On Sunday 28 November 2004 01:33 pm, Joseph Pehrson wrote:
> > There is a "new" recording of my piece for 7 instruments, "Wild
Wild
> > West" up on Soundclick.
> >
> > Well, it's "new" to me... the Archaeus Ensemble who performed this
> > piece 4 times in Romania and Eastern Europe never sent me a tape,
> > although I asked for it more than once.
> >
> > They recently performed the piece again, and I was in touch about
a
> > tape. Curiously, the performance and recording from 1999 which I
> > never had and which is now up, is the better of the two.
> >
> > There is microtonality in this piece, although not *systematic*
> > microtonality... but rather quartertones and such like. Still,
it's
> > only about 6 minutes of your time, and they do a nice job playing
it:
>
> Joseph,
>
> Wow! I loved it! Great piece, and great performance, from what I
can tell.
>
> There's a wonderfully strange 'stop' at 3:38 that sounds like a
single
> harmonica like note....nice! Like the cadenza for violin leading
into a
> 'recap' of sorts. I love the ending that just ends!
>
> I could see this type of thing in a Hitchcock-ian suspense movie
soundtrack
> ala Bernard Hermann. It's very intense and suspenseful music to me,
but also
> kind of madcap (in a sick-humor kind of way) at the same time.
>
> This goes on the repeat listening list!
>

***Thanks, Aaron, for the nice comments about _Wild, Wild West_.
Actually that harmonica thing has a slightly humorous story. The
score indicates, believe it or not "Police Whistle!" Maybe in 1999
the Romanians weren't quite ready for that, since they used a rather
discrete and pleasantly harmonic sound from that harmonica instead.
I note, though, that in the recent performance of 2004 they use
a "real" police whistle as was intended. Maybe they've "loosened up"
a bit... :) (Rest of the performance decidedly not as good, though
as the 1999)

Thanks again!!!

Joseph