P.S. BILL,
Your earlier comments meant for Terry ended up on Idatrod's thread So it is not really lost .... Mike is just looking after it
Best to you
Tony

You are one proficient guy Terry. I liked Majorca, Katmandu, and Tibetan world very much. Also the "industrial" percussion sounds on "One World".

A few of these tunes make me imagine what some of the fractal music I've listened to could sound like if real musicians playing real musical instruments made it. That's a compliment btw.. I have dabbled with fractal music myself, and listened to a few good fractal pieces that I can realy get into.. but more often I find fractal tunes to be lifeless and without direction.. or just too way out there.

Good job.. nice drums on this stuff.

AJ

Tony, how did that happen, I have not yet even READ idatrods' thread! Anyway, thanks for the heads-up.
Bill

Tony,
Thanks big time after not hearing from you for awhile it was nice to have touch again. Glad you enjoyed the work. I think as always the journey is ever changing for me and hopefully along with that always getting better as well. I'm also pleased that you are hearing some of the more subtle nuances that I have included in some of the cuts that I put there for those like you who listen closely.

Something that has always stuck with me from my earlier years as a canvas painter and hanging out with other painters as well is this....I was looking at an abstract watercolor of another artists work and we were discussing it. I asked him why he was painting abstract instead of realism, his reply was, " with abstract things they never get old, every time I look at it I can see a new painting, whereas with realism after I see it once, I get it and it will be the same each time I visit it." I thought a ring of truth to it and it gave me a new perspective on viewing works like that.

In some way I hope my work at least partially reflects that thought process, unexpected and new with each visit, but most especially on the first listen, because it is not formula cookie mold sort of composition.

To me also the ultimate compliment is the one you make here with "Tibetan Gold" that it evokes an emotion or memory in you, through the listening experience.....it doesn't get any better than that from my perspective.
Terry

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AJ,
As always your input is greatly appreciated as I have always enjoyed and respected your work and abilities.

I hope my music a bit more connected and melodic than much of the fractal stuff I've heard. Conceptually though I understand your connection to my work and fractal and does indeed have a sense of some elements of fractal compositional techniques. Hopefully going a step further and creating order from the chaos.
thanks,
Terry

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[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 10-26-2003).]

Terry,

Your songs are certainly more melodic than most of the fractal stuff I've heard.

Fractal compostion has always intrigued me, and there are certain elements of it that I would like to incorporate into a few of my songs. I did one tune a while back that started out in Lars Linderman's very simple but cool "Music in the Numbers" Program. It went thru much editing and addition and subtraction, but the core idea I got from MITN remained the theme of the song. I have to look thru my CD archives here to see if I still have it.

There are a select few out there who actually make some pretty cool music via some of these programs. Phil Jackson, who moderates the CN fractal forum is one of them. A lot of editing probably gets done after a piece is "born" in a fractal program.


A few of your songs give me a feel of something that may have had fractal beginnings or fractal elements added and then was well developed into good music. I like it...

AJ

AJ
Fractal music or fractal algorhythms are rather an interesting concept I think. Most fractal music I like you have a pretty hard time getting behind. I am open to the thought process though and think of it as yet another color on the musical palette. Use what I can and leave what I can't.
Terry

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[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 10-27-2003).]

What's all this talk about "Fractal" music? I never heard the term. Is it a writing method?

Dave, It's a rather odd concept that I am sure you will not care for on a light read through or listen. One has to consider tha possibilities though that can be done with it if explored further, I think. One has to be open to think outside the box with fractal theory.

Here's a couple of links to fractal sites:
http://www.fractalmusiclab.com/default.asp
http://www.thinks.com/sounds/fractal.htm
Terry

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