Purchased Ivory piano samples on a Glyph drive, and I have to say I am totally impressed, not just with the technology, but with the sound which is very realistic and very flexible. 10 velocity layers. The player barely gets to 7-10% CPU when playing 32 voices with the pedal down. The [...]

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Contrary to popular belief, the method is not putting a real bullet in a gun during some of the scenes of THE DEER HUNTER, or trying to make believable circumstances by replicating real situations to get a sense of truth. Not saying its doesn’t work or isn’t a creative technique, or just good PR [...]

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in speaking of Meisner, there is a very good documentary online on youtube, which is well worth seeing. Particularly, look at the end of section 5 – around 6 minutes in, and the beginning of section 6 where he is watching Francis Sternhagen do an exercise. Sanford gives her an “adjustment” and the [...]

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Less composing than research this week, as I spent considerable time reviewing samples and making decisions for a refresh, in addition to investigating theatre in the Bay Area. A couple of days proved worthy in the comp department, which boiled down to some thematic improvisation on materials, and writing down small very discrete outlines [...]

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I could write a tremendously long post on theatre – the profession and training programs in NYC and here in San Francisco. But I’ll try and let it ride through a number of posts as thoughts come up from time to time in my delium. It’s something I haven’t talked about…so it [...]

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Good working session last evening, pencil in hand. Outlining main opening theme. Still a lot more to do with it. Have a general sense of where it should go and how it should grow and masquerade the pitch centers. Think I might write this in open score – in my world [...]

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Listening to demos online at Vienna Symphonic Library.
Check out the two Howard Hanson demos on this page which demos the CUBE package, and the RV Williams Tallis on this page which demos the Appasionata Strings. (you may be prompted for a world region when going to either of these pages).
This Jay Bacal is a [...]

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Still recovering from the Welsh curse, so I took it easy this weekend musically. Sort of a chronic cough – bronchial in nature. I think it might be the dust or pollen that still swarms around me. OK, I looked around the internet trying to figure out what the hell VSL SE [...]

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