This is a bit embarrassing, but kind of funny. It relates to a private email, so I won't be naming my correspondent, but it was relating to Hands Off.
Rewind to my jam with Charlie et al last year. We played two modern pieces - Grainger's Free Music No. 1 and a piece I could not recall the name of. The crumpled photocopy of a hand written transcription of the graphical score is still in my possession, and I could not see a name on it anywhere. It consisted of numerous fragments of music, mostly written on staves, some with notes, some with squiggles, one with numbers. And one very cryptic notation in the centre of the sheet, two concentric circles with eight evenly spaced radial two-headed arrows between them and letters scattered around the empty spaces. Well, I tried to play all the fragments - even the incomprehensible one.
Fast forward to the present. My correspondent mentions Glissandi by Jorge Campos and gives a brief description of the score. It rings a bell. I flatten out my score, photograph it, tweak it in photoshop and email it back with the question - Is this it?
Then I settle down to study the score a bit and see if it makes more sense a year or so later. Particularly the weird circle thing. After staring at it for a couple of minutes I suddenly wondered if the letters spelled anything. They certainly did! They spelled [i]glissandi[/i] and [i] Jorge Campos[/i].
I had been trying to play the title.
Rewind to my jam with Charlie et al last year. We played two modern pieces - Grainger's Free Music No. 1 and a piece I could not recall the name of. The crumpled photocopy of a hand written transcription of the graphical score is still in my possession, and I could not see a name on it anywhere. It consisted of numerous fragments of music, mostly written on staves, some with notes, some with squiggles, one with numbers. And one very cryptic notation in the centre of the sheet, two concentric circles with eight evenly spaced radial two-headed arrows between them and letters scattered around the empty spaces. Well, I tried to play all the fragments - even the incomprehensible one.
Fast forward to the present. My correspondent mentions Glissandi by Jorge Campos and gives a brief description of the score. It rings a bell. I flatten out my score, photograph it, tweak it in photoshop and email it back with the question - Is this it?
Then I settle down to study the score a bit and see if it makes more sense a year or so later. Particularly the weird circle thing. After staring at it for a couple of minutes I suddenly wondered if the letters spelled anything. They certainly did! They spelled [i]glissandi[/i] and [i] Jorge Campos[/i].
I had been trying to play the title.
