Sorabji Forum

[ryguillian]

With so much discussion of Sorabji here and elsewhere, I've decided to make a centralized place for discussion of Sorabji and his music: The Sorabji Forum. This will be the place for all Sorabji-related discussion and hopefully will be a helpful resource to all those interested.

https://sorabji.ath.cx (The Sorabji Forum)

—Ryan

[contrapunctus]

Just think what Sorabji would do to you if you didn't join (and he was still alive).

[ahinton]

Just think what Sorabji would do to you if you didn't join (and he was still alive).

Absolutely. As in "nothing at all". Not sure to whom "you" is intended to refer here, though. May one presume from the tone of what you write that you'll not be joining yourself?

Best,

Alistair

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

Are you joining yourself Alistair? Encomium to those that do. I think that a such disputed composer should be discussed in a forum, to succour all of the consternation in this forum.

[ahinton]

Greetings.

Are you joining yourself Alistair? Encomium to those that do. I think that a such disputed composer should be discussed in a forum, to succour all of the consternation in this forum.

Yes, I already have joined - and answered a question there about Sorabji's Piano Sonata No. 5. "Contrapunctus" has also joined, so my assumption above has been proved wrong.

Neither this nor the new Sorabji forum is "my" forum, but as a member of both I would prefer to see intelligent discussion of Sorabji in each than the "consternation" to which you refer. I would add that I do not imagine that the Sorabji forum's founder intended thereby to discourage discussion of Sorabji on other fora such as this one but to provide a specialist area for such discussion.

Best,

Alistair

[prometheus]

I think you should radically reduce the number of subforums. Maybe even have one. The number of subforums should be dictated by the number of posts. If a forum doesn't get a few posts every week then it is totally useless.

[ryguillian]

I think you should radically reduce the number of subforums. Maybe even have one. The number of subforums should be dictated by the number of posts. If a forum doesn't get a few posts every week then it is totally useless.

Actually, if there is any confusion, I am the administrator of the Sorabji Forum. That said, if you have any specific problems with the layout of the site you might offer an alternate ”constitution” of the forum to replace the current one? Actually, I was thinking about getting advice from users and people interested as to how to layout the site, the layout I put was a tentative one just to ”get the ball rolling.” That said, I am completely open to suggestions.

—Ryan

[prometheus]

Yes, I realised that.

I often see people 'open' a forum with long lists of subforums for every subject. It's like organising a party and having several small rooms for people to sit in. No problem if you have enough people to fill all these rooms. But when you only have people to fill one room then this is very awkward. People have to walk from empty room to empty room.

There is some reason that causes people who open a forum to organise many of these subforums for every subject. I don't understand why people do this. But I have seen it happen very often.

In my opinion a subforum is only justified if you have so many post people that visit the forum have to find the topic they want to read on the second page. Then you need to split up a forum.

[ryguillian]

Yes, I realised that.

I often see people 'open' a forum with long lists of subforums for every subject. It's like organising a party and having several small rooms for people to sit in. No problem if you have enough people to fill all these rooms. But when you only have people to fill one room then this is very awkward. People have to walk from empty room to empty room.

There is some reason that causes people who open a forum to organise many of these subforums for every subject. I don't understand why people do this. But I have seen it happen very often.

In my opinion a subforum is only justified if you have so many post people that visit the forum have to find the topic they want to read on the second page. Then you need to split up a forum.

Thanks for the helpful advice / analogy. I did reduce the number of subforums, there are still categories, but this is only because I don't really want to have one subcategory ”Sorabji”, this would be redundant. Have you registered, by the way?

—Ryan

[ahinton]

"Prometheus" makes a valid point here - in principle, at least - but, as everyone concerned realises, this forum is very much in its infancy and it will therefore be impossible to make reliable structural decisions based upon numbers of members joining (and leaving!) and numbers of posts until it's been around for a while and those statistics begin to reveal themselves over time. Worth bearing in mind as time goes by, however.

Best,

Alistair

[ryguillian]

Would anybody know a good place to advertise the forum? So far I’ve done it here, the Sorabji Group, the Gaming Force Forum, and John Carey’s piano forum. Any help would be much appreciated.

—Ryan

[tompilk]

Would anybody know a good place to advertise the forum? So far I’ve done it here, the Sorabji Group, the Gaming Force Forum, and John Carey’s piano forum. Any help would be much appreciated.

—Ryan

how about taking a trip to the dark side and enter pianoworld forum? that is apparently is an active forum, although i have not dared venture...
Tom

[ryguillian]

An update for those intersted: we now have 33 registered users including many people currently editing Sorabji’s scores, and other Sorabji experts. The forum is going very well!

—Ryan