Musicianship -- FilePro-list Digest, Vol 80, Issue 37

[Steve Parker]

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:30:10 -0400
From: Bruce Easton <bruce at stn.com>
Subject: Re: Musicianship (was RE: I'm going to write an
	Anziowin/scanning	interface for filePro...)
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[Steve Parker] 
It amazes me how different we all are in many ways, and yet the interesting
things many of us seem to share!

Up until my Junior year in High School, I entertained a career in Music. But
what? Professional Musician? Providing I could have even reached that level,
the life style (particularly the constant travel) did not appeal to me. [I
might have opted for something in between if there had been more guidance
here!] Teacher or instructor? Long hard road at poverty levels in the 60's.
And the money aside, I could not see myself in that kind of position either.
But I surely did LOVE the High School Jazz band festival in Chicago! We went
in 1968 and 1969 -- what an incredible performance in 1968 by the Air Force
Jazz Band, and even better by the University of Illinois Jazz Band (lead by
William Garvey, the Orchestral Director!) -- they had amazing precision.
Even wrote or arranged most of their own music! Amazing!!

Then in '69 my Dad took a transfer from DeKalb, Illinois to Caracas,
Venezuela. And from my years there in High School and Later in College
(Bogota, Colombia) I remain fluent in Spanish and somewhat passable in
French. Portuguese I can understand a lot of what I read on a WEB site, for
example.

So in reference to some prior posts, I have the math skills, some fairly
strong music talent and certainly continued appreciation of it, and language
skills. I suppose this has helped me survive these past 20 year on my own.

My long-time friend Todd Hales (VERY strong in filePro and Unix) had some
hidden artistic skills he took up in the last 10 years or so of his life.

I find this all very interesting!

Steve Parker
ABC Computing Services

> Wow.  On this forum I never imagined I'd hear people talking about the 
> brain, Coleman Hawkins, Pat Metheny, Pink Floyd, Debussy, synth 
> patching, etc. in the same thread. :)  I fiddle around on a Trinity 
> (predecessor to the Korg Triton), and elec. piano, which face away from 
> the back of my home office workstation; and sometimes I go into 
> Garageband, but I've not had much time to play with that recently.
>
> But what a rich experience Bill describes below - sounds like he would 
> have plenty of material for an interesting book.  I've just recently 
> been reading about Coleman Hawkins.  What an exciting era (musically 
> speaking).
>
> Between these two threads, Bob's mention of some of his synth triggering 
> and John's mention of Metheny and talk of how people hear things somehow 
> reminded my brain of a video I saw recently on the Pat Metheny site 
> where he discusses how he hears things and shows off this system where 
> he has an extensive array of pneumatic and solenoid-controlled 
> instruments that I think are mostly controlled from his guitar.  This is 
> his Orchestrion project which is already one of his tours:
>
> http://www.patmetheny.com/orchestrioninfo/
> (link to video)
>
> Bruce




  
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