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holytoastrFriday was definitely well spent. A very nice way to end the semester and relax before finals.
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zorikin took me out to dinner. :) I tried a vegetarian muffaletta at ben's prompting. It was basically an olive salad on bread. Mmmmmmm....I love olives.
Afterwards we walked off the food by looking at stores. It was a nice evening, even if it was off and on raining. And the river was really pretty last night, though that may have been influenced by the present company. (Ok, I'll stop now, I swear.)
Saturday...hmmmm, well I slept through most of it. I was reallllllly tired. We got up well past noon. We started watching Kill Bill 2 (Never saw the first one, so ben had to be my footnotes all through the beginning until I could figure out what was going on.) until the wonderfulj_buns and k_cat invited us on an expedition to an asian supermarket.
I got.....HI-CHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *squeal* Four flavors of that most wonderful of all candies. Strawberry (my favorite), peach (now a close second), orange (tolerable), and yogurt (didn't like, but everyone else did). Mmmmmm.....I ate so much hi-chew yesterday. If I was normal, I think I would ahve been sick.
Also got strawberry gummi, strawberry soda, men's pocky (for ben), strawberry mousse pocky (my favorite), strawberry rabbit milk candy, strawberry yanyan (I prefer vanilla, but I was handed strawberyy. A well, still yummy), and strawberry mochi ice cream. Mmmmmm....all so yummy.
I had intended on getting strawberry daifuku too, but I didn't see any. Jenny later informed me that it was just carefully well-hidden. Bah.
Anyway, after that, ben and I were driven back to rockethouse where we finished watching kill bill. Then we went with billy to some electronic music thingy on campus. I find that type of music to be infuriatingly repetitive, but I was good and didn't make a complaint. Though, I was close to walking out on the last song. It was about 20 minutes of the sound "-O"......TWENTY MINUTES!!!!! It hurt my ears. Gave me a slight headache. Even the speakers were rejecting it--starting to crackle and pop louder and louder.
Ben made bread when we got back though, so that made up for it. Mmmm...fresh bread.
Also, I got ben to watch Big Fish with me. I think that's a great movie. I was really proud of myself for not crying this time. Though, the two others (Won't name names :3 )we were watching it with did.
Inspired by Tim Burton shinyness, we were also inspired to get Sleepy Hollow. That finished downloading jsut as Big Fish ended. Wheeeeee, I've never seen that one.
I probably should ahve gone to bed earlier that evening though. When the alarm went off this morning, I turned it off and went back to sleep. The thing was, the music was too loud. My ears are overly sensitive in the mornings for some reason, and loud sounds make me very angry.
When ben was setting the alarm, I asked him to lower the volume, but I don't think he heard me...Or maybe it just wasn't lowered enough. Whatever it was, it was LOUD. And first thing in the morning, the only solution I could find was to turn the volume off on the comp.
Then, sufficiently cranky, I crawled back into bed to console myself with sleep.....COMPLETELY FORGETTING I HAD TO GET UP FOR WORK.shiroiakuma tried to IM me to wake me up, but with no volume on, I never heard it.
About 90 minutes later, I had to fly back to campus. Managed to only be an hour late. But I lack music, books, and food. I want breakfast. I can't wait for this shift to end.
zorikin took me out to dinner. :) I tried a vegetarian muffaletta at ben's prompting. It was basically an olive salad on bread. Mmmmmmm....I love olives.Afterwards we walked off the food by looking at stores. It was a nice evening, even if it was off and on raining. And the river was really pretty last night, though that may have been influenced by the present company. (Ok, I'll stop now, I swear.)
Saturday...hmmmm, well I slept through most of it. I was reallllllly tired. We got up well past noon. We started watching Kill Bill 2 (Never saw the first one, so ben had to be my footnotes all through the beginning until I could figure out what was going on.) until the wonderful
j_buns and k_cat invited us on an expedition to an asian supermarket.I got.....HI-CHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *squeal* Four flavors of that most wonderful of all candies. Strawberry (my favorite), peach (now a close second), orange (tolerable), and yogurt (didn't like, but everyone else did). Mmmmmm.....I ate so much hi-chew yesterday. If I was normal, I think I would ahve been sick.
Also got strawberry gummi, strawberry soda, men's pocky (for ben), strawberry mousse pocky (my favorite), strawberry rabbit milk candy, strawberry yanyan (I prefer vanilla, but I was handed strawberyy. A well, still yummy), and strawberry mochi ice cream. Mmmmmm....all so yummy.
I had intended on getting strawberry daifuku too, but I didn't see any. Jenny later informed me that it was just carefully well-hidden. Bah.
Anyway, after that, ben and I were driven back to rockethouse where we finished watching kill bill. Then we went with billy to some electronic music thingy on campus. I find that type of music to be infuriatingly repetitive, but I was good and didn't make a complaint. Though, I was close to walking out on the last song. It was about 20 minutes of the sound "-O"......TWENTY MINUTES!!!!! It hurt my ears. Gave me a slight headache. Even the speakers were rejecting it--starting to crackle and pop louder and louder.
Ben made bread when we got back though, so that made up for it. Mmmm...fresh bread.
Also, I got ben to watch Big Fish with me. I think that's a great movie. I was really proud of myself for not crying this time. Though, the two others (Won't name names :3 )we were watching it with did.
Inspired by Tim Burton shinyness, we were also inspired to get Sleepy Hollow. That finished downloading jsut as Big Fish ended. Wheeeeee, I've never seen that one.
I probably should ahve gone to bed earlier that evening though. When the alarm went off this morning, I turned it off and went back to sleep. The thing was, the music was too loud. My ears are overly sensitive in the mornings for some reason, and loud sounds make me very angry.
When ben was setting the alarm, I asked him to lower the volume, but I don't think he heard me...Or maybe it just wasn't lowered enough. Whatever it was, it was LOUD. And first thing in the morning, the only solution I could find was to turn the volume off on the comp.
Then, sufficiently cranky, I crawled back into bed to console myself with sleep.....COMPLETELY FORGETTING I HAD TO GET UP FOR WORK.
shiroiakuma tried to IM me to wake me up, but with no volume on, I never heard it.About 90 minutes later, I had to fly back to campus. Managed to only be an hour late. But I lack music, books, and food. I want breakfast. I can't wait for this shift to end.
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Date: 2004-05-02 05:30 pm (UTC)i happened to come across your post tonight as i was working, and i thought i'd comment on what you've written about the piece i performed last night. first, lemme say, thank you quite kindly for coming. everyone in my class worked very hard, and it was great that we had such a turnout despite the pouring rain. awesome.
electroacoustic music (as you heard at the concert) is by no means an easy thing to digest. i sometimes marvel at the MURDER that modern painters are able to get away with and be accepted vs. modern musicians who rot in obscurity, and with that in mind i certainly understand your plight. one of the most important things to do when tackling challenging electroacoustic music is to understand what the artist's vision/purpose/etc for the work. perhaps you would never like a composition like the one i performed, but i hope that i can sway you to respect it from an informed aesthetical position.
It was about 20 minutes of the sound "-O"
believe it or not, my professor suggested that i make it longer! the reason for the length is a grab at the subjective experience of time. i was after trying to make the listeners lose track of time thanks to the sheer size of the piece...i.e. let the sheer massiveness and subtelty in the changes from minute to minute overtake the experience. it was also very key that the changes, as subtle as they were, happen very slowly. i picked "O" as the single source because of the ease of looping it...and i found a certain beautiful austerity in it that you might find in a very large cathedral all cut from the same stone.
Even the speakers were rejecting it--starting to crackle and pop louder and louder.
believe it or not, the crackling was on purpose. one of the major problems i encountered while working on the piece was the low quality of my source recording---you and i both know that answering machine speakers sound TERRIBLE...when i found that it was impossible to remove the clicking and popping entirely, i (thanks to the beauty of accident in art) incorporated it as a part of the piece, slowly moving the O from dominating the piece entirely to letting it be overtaken by the clicks/pops/etc. i blame my program notes for lacking in explanation of that. i'm sure you were not the only one who didn't understand my intent, and as a result of the quickness with which i had to explain a piece that i spent roughly 50-60 hours working on, i didn't give you any help. the key to getting the most out of the end was the spatialization: it was specially mixed to make use of the 4 speakers that surrounded you as you sat in the hall.
ok, enough blabbering on my part. hopefully you at least can get a bit more out of what you heard rather than simply the immediate distasteful reaction you had...if you made it this far reading, thanks. feel free to reply with questions comments etc