New Notation Technique for Modern "Music"

[michel dvorsky]

For composers like Sorabji etc. I've invented a way to condense their tome-like compositions into a more manageable form with a new form of notation:

Example from the popular Opus Cleavagecrappicumythbusters'ballisticgel

Page 1:
SLAM SLAM RUN ARPEGGIO SLAM SLAM SLAM
Page 2:
Dissonant Chord Glissando SLAM SLAM FART SLAM SPAM!
Page 3:
Cascading run Accelerando SLAM ARPEGGIO SLAM FAST CHORDS IN THE UPPER REGISTER
Page 4:
Accelerando scale --->{FORTISSIMO CHORD SLAM}

I feel this method a) saves paper and ink b) saves time c) allows the interpreter more flexibility and d) inherently improves the composer's vision.

I've condensed Opus Clav into 4 pages of such notation. Price: $2.25. Special promotional offer: $1.05.+ free shipping. CALL NOW!

[thalbergmad]

I must say i think that is a bit Latinically challenged and you forgot to leave the contact number.

Thal

[michel dvorsky]

Mea culpa.

These will be sold at all fine pet stores, pubs, and gas stations nearest you.

[ahinton]

For composers like Sorabji etc. I've invented a way to condense their tome-like compositions into a more manageable form with a new form of notation:

How increadibly considerate (not to say pompous) of you!

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I feel this method a) saves paper and ink b) saves time c) allows the interpreter more flexibility and d) inherently improves the composer's vision.

I've condensed Opus Clav into 4 pages of such notation. Price: $2.25. Special promotional offer: $1.05.+ free shipping. CALL NOW!

Clearly, you have ample time on your hands and nothing remotely useful to do with it, otherwise you would not have bothered even to type this post, let alone do what you claim to have done but, at the risk of wasting some of my own time, let us briefly examine what you write here.

Why would you care how this might benefit an interpreter when you already make it plain that you would prefer that Sorabji's music were left unperformed?

How can "the composer's vision" be affected by mere changes in notational convention in his/her scores?

Wouldn't it save even more paper and ink if you didn't bother to do this at all? - after all, Sorabji's scores will still be sold in the form in which he wrote them, as well as in the ever-increasing number of typeset editions of them.

How "modern" is Sorabji's music? He's been dead for 20 years...

I'd be wary of charging money for something of this nature with Sorabji's name attached to it as the alleged composer if I were you (which, most fortunately, I am not...)

Best,

Alistair

[michel dvorsky]

You're adorable, hinty. I love you. But I don't love Neon Leon. Survival of the fittest.

[ahinton]

I don't love Neon Leon.

Nor do any of us, I imagine.

Survival of the fittest.

"Fittest" for what? On the strength of what you write here, your fitness as a commentator on certain music suggests that your own survival may be in serious doubt; here is an example:

Page 1:
SLAM SLAM RUN ARPEGGIO SLAM SLAM SLAM
Page 2:
Dissonant Chord Glissando SLAM SLAM FART SLAM SPAM!
Page 3:
Cascading run Accelerando SLAM ARPEGGIO SLAM FAST CHORDS IN THE UPPER REGISTER
Page 4:
Accelerando scale --->{FORTISSIMO CHORD SLAM}

You mention this as a suggested notational improvement for music such as Sorabji's and, yes, I admit that I can immediately hear works such as Le Jardin Parfumé, Djami, Gulistan and The Garden of Iran (from the Symphonic Variations) as typical candidates for this kind of treatment...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

I must say i think that is a bit Latinically challenged

"A bit"? My, you're in generous mood today!...

you forgot to leave the contact number.

Wisely, methinks - but then you omitted to leave your shipping address...

Best,

Alistair