this one's for Ian

jealous

if you want your face rocked off...go here.

rebirth

so the warrior-bard posted, and herr vogler had a follow up on two specific composers' role in music. and i would just like to throw my hat in the ring beside theirs.

i agree with the fact that one who's career it is to compose should be studied in all and as many different styles/philosophies/whatever of theory so as to have an authoritative grasp on their own subject matter. but my idea of musicality is much like the warrior-bard's.

the third experience i had with hands on training in composition helped me with my decision to quit music. it was pretty much 30% him, 30% me suffering with foreign language, 30% my lack of devotion to study, and 10% me being a pussy for not putting up with it. anyway...this professor had an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a doctor of arts. he basically forced myself and the other students to write in tone rows and concentrate on the "mathematical theory" of music while we wrote. i remember when he began to instruct us in method he would get a very sadistic glint in his eyes and become excited at the prospect of teaching these things that he loved so much. the other students and i tried to discuss the musicality of what he was teaching and challenge what was the ultimate lesson...but he turned a deaf ear.

so i became jaded and quit music. now however, i have no doubt that i will have to meet this particular school of thought head on and swallow it whole, thus inducing a musical peristalsis of all the crap that it is.

i had a good discussion about this very topic with my high school music mentor/teacher. he said that a few professors believe in what they profess. but the rest teach it with the evil glints in their eyes because it is what was forced on them. i just hope that if i am ever a professor i can teach it and then move on to the more aesthetically pleasing subject matter.

still waiting to hear from PSU about the results of my audtion.
and very excited because the organist at my church is going to perform a short piano piece that i am writing during holy week of easter. as soon as i get it recorded maybe you all can hear and judge my inexperience and my parallel octaves.

much love my friends.

the force is iffy

i had my
audition
for PSU
on saturday.
it went well
(i hope) and
the professors
seemed to be
all smiles.
here's me in
my new suit.






the one thing i have noticed is that a few of the people in the dept. don't really seem to know what's goin on. my point being is that about three weeks ago when i had an advisor's meeting i asked if the dept. provides an accompanist for the auditions and the answer was, "no, if you are auditioning on the scholaship weekend (which i did) then you must provide your own." so i scrambled to find an accompanist and get some sort of practice in.

so day of the auditions i noticed that no one else had brought an accompanist. i felt stupid. but...i felt comfortable because my accompanist and i had a (very short) history together so she knew how i would be performing and also where i liked to breathe. hopefully it made me look a little bit more professional. but that is always up in the air.

other than that...watching the olympics. and writing on my nocturne.

so peace my friends.

and a congrats to fockin bakken boobs n' bones for her engagement!!! and kevin too.

time

first time to Mt. Hood. me and my friend ian.

excellent even though i am in the worst shape i've ever been in my life.
so my goal for next time...be less fat.

hello planet Earth...it's me...Reed

i know i fell off the face of you, but i'm back...now.

enough of that.

i have to aplogize to my faithful reader about having not blogged...so, i'm sorry.

i haven't been busy or anything, just lazy.

i have met with a professor at PSU and been advised (though not thoroughly).

Ruthie (wife) and i have joined church choir, and right away we get to sing John Stainer's Crucifixion. i haven't heard it before, but i was told it is similar to Gilbert & Sullivan. if this is true, i am in heaven...for i am the pirate king.

my audition into the PSU music dept. is on the 11th, so i had to scramble to find an accompanist...i was only told two days ago that the dept doesn't provide one.

i am assembling my tax info to hopefully get some money back.

i have been following the news (hamas' democratic coup) and the scandal's from Washington DC. one question...Hamas was elected democratically but we aren't going to recognize them because they support terrorism and the death of Israel. someone enlighten me as to how i should feel about this...this means you Amelia.

i watched the presidents state of the union and the democrat's response. i feel disenfranchised. no we should not make the tax cuts permenant unless Bush wants our country to file bankruptcy. Bush lumped abortions in with crime when he was talking about what was on the decline...which i don't agree with his characterization. and he is saying how he wants America to commit itself to provide very strong education of math and science, but then he talks about how we should not grow embryos just for research (which to me feels kind of anti-scientific.)

i watched a special on PBS called Frontline: Al Qaeda's new front...one word...scary.

i saw Brokeback Mountain and found it to be one of the sadder love stories i've seen.

got the soundtrack to Munich and love it absolutely. very haunting. i haven't seen the movie yet. nor have i seen Memoirs (or heard the soundtrack). i have been searching for an inexpensive Battlestar Galactica soundtrack because the warrior-bard said i should.
but no one on ebay will trade me one for my granola bar.

other than that, i have been working over the internet for my company (not really mine, just the one i work for). making a webister for my company (the one that will hopefully someday feed me from it's income alone.) which you can check out at here. i have also been editing some home video, and planning a one-day snowboard trip to Mt. Hood (which has over 18 feet of snow...yay.) and writing some music. currently i am working on a "nocturne" that hopefully will work in the opening sequence of Mike S's "1 In 9."

so yeah...other than that...i am lazy.

have great days all around.