'Guys Dressed Like Girls' by Carl Lumma

Hi,

Back in--2004, was it Carl?--when I first met Carl in the flesh in Berkeley,
this piece was sitting on his piano, and I played it, and immediately found
it to be attractive; in a way, the angular lines and vertical spikes remind
me of neo-classical Stravinsky, but with a bit more disturbing (in a good
way!) urgency perhaps, and a touch of jazz sensibility.

Anyway, I told Carl I liked it and wanted to record it. I finally lived up to
my promise, and in the future, maybe you'll see 2 other of his pieces played
by yours truly.

My real acoustic piano is suffering from unstable tuning due to heat, humidity
and new-ish strings, so I opted to record my P-200, which is fairly nice. I
had to overtrack single channel audio files, and reassemble them in Audacity,
alas, Yamaha P-200 no do multi-channel MIDI....

I hope you enjoy this little piece as much as I enjoyed preparing it! The
tuning is Johnson/Secor rational WT.

http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/LummaGuys.ogg
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/Lummaguys.mp3
(0'37" in length)

Best,
Aaron.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Krister Johnson <aaron@...> wrote:

> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/LummaGuys.ogg
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/Lummaguys.mp3
> (0'37" in length)

http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/LummaGuys.mp3

Aaron Johnson wrote...
> Back in--2004, was it Carl?--when I first met Carl in the
> flesh in Berkeley, this piece was sitting on his piano, and
> I played it, and immediately found it to be attractive;

For those of you not on the MakeMicroMusic list, you can
read more about this here:

/makemicromusic/topicId_14395.html#14402

and

/makemicromusic/topicId_14395.html#14403

-Carl