Author: PamelaM
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Improv with Audio Files and Computers
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Read more: Improv with Audio Files and ComputersI heard an interesting concert last Friday. The New England Phonographers Union appeared in the Art Without Borders concert series at the Democracy Center in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. They each make their own audio recordings of “found sound”, whatever is going on in the world around them. Then, without further editing, maybe just a…
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Improv classes and composition lessons
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Read more: Improv classes and composition lessonsI’ve talked to various teachers who tell me that there’s a lot of attrition in their private teaching studios. Parents have lost jobs or are moving or are just cutting back. So it’s a bad time to launch myself into teaching. But that’s what I’m doing! I’ll be offering an improv class – Free Improv…
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Stockhausen’s Kontakte at SICPP in Boston
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Read more: Stockhausen’s Kontakte at SICPP in BostonThis week is SICPP at New England Conservatory (Summer Institute in Contemporary Performance Practice, also known as Sick Puppy, I didn’t make that up. They call it that!). Along with the seminar activities during the day (I participated in 2007), there is a fabulous week of free evening concerts — the big, hard-to-program, fascinating works…
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Storing Old Vellum – Why?
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Read more: Storing Old Vellum – Why?Why do I still have a pile of vellum for music copying? I’ve got sheets with layouts for quintets, quartets, parts, chorus. It’s such old technology. I never want to go back to copying music by hand with pens on transparent vellum, which are then copied using a diazo machine. For those of you who…
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New Year’s Resolutions
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Read more: New Year’s ResolutionsA New Years Resolutions thread at Sequenza 21 reminded me about making New Year’s resolutions. There’s so many needs tugging at me, but all I want to do is make musical plans. I want to remedy my lack of momentum of the past few months. Everyone knows – economic times are tough. They’re tough here…