Erik Carlson

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Wanderer and the Road is so elegant... is there a violin version? :-)

This morning I'm thinking about a real-time score that sometimes interrupts a paper score.

If notes had substance, the center of mass of the Bach Chaconne would be just below A4, at the beginning of measure 140.
Trying to figure out how to turn this into a book deal...

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I hit a milestone today with my recital series of conceptual works: #900. This one is part of the subset that consist of a single note placed within an hour. In this case, in such a way so the number of vibrations in the 1st half of the hour is the square of the number of vibrations in the 2nd half.

Peter Lenaerts's "Serbian Orthodox Church of the Prophet Elijah". Stereo microphones placed between two candles, recording the entire process of both candles burning.
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(It's still a strong indicator of amazing)

I also loved on the old internet when you'd reach a .edu link to some professor's personal site. Guaranteed amazing.

YouTube video by Elisa Sutherland The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation | Henry Purcell

Elisa Sutherland singing Purcell. So good.
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oh

If you search for "music of the seven vowels", that'll start you down the rabbit hole... :-)

New Babbitt recording: Minute Waltz, performed by Aleck Karis
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If you send me such a tape, I'll play it on stage and follow the instructions. But that would require making a cassette... maybe worth it tho?

I would perform that

Next week at the Dog Star Festival I'll play the first of two notes that will be symmetrical in time around the exact middle of the year.
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Transcription by Élie Poirée of a 3rd-century(!) palindromic melody that consists of every permutation of 3 pitches. (original: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Suppl. grec 574)

Big day. New San Diego taco got added to my list of all-time favorites, c/o Nico's Fish Market
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I don't either

Complementary tetrachords that have nearly identical frequency sums in equal temperament (for piano 4-hands)
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I'm working on a series of hour-long performances that consist of a single tone placed within the hour.
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Wonderful scores here by Barak Perelman:
www.barakperelman.com

de quelques mots, by pä 3 track album

new.

Today: three repetitions of a tone, the second tone sounding at the exact midpoint in time and space between the first and third tones.
(1 second and 2002.83 kilometers)
Performed by Madeleine Jansen, D. Edward Davis, and myself.
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An old advertisement for John Taylor, claiming to have hung the "Three Heaviest Ringing Peals in Existence"

John Taylor is the Richard Serra of change ringing.

I made a list of performances of pieces written by other composers that I've played on my pattern/conceptual/algorithm/etc. recital series. I love learning about new music... if you have suggestions of pieces I should check out, old or new, let me know?
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3 phrases from the Liber Usualis that have the same pitch content.

Spending the day finding Gregorian chant phrases that have the same pitch content

A fence with the wires 3 inches apart, matching to a frequency of 4501 Hertz

Spent the day listening to frequencies with the same wavelength as various repetitive structural elements nearby.
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