So you have all been scribbling away for the past couple of weeks, how’s it going? I listened to some of your stuff Mica on Myspace (loving Golden phone!) which has a kind of anarchist/urban/electro-pop/comic/dance feel (that was the best I could do …improvements anyone?!) is that vibe going to surface in your piece for the LPO ensemble? Would the players know what to do with it?! I know you mentioned skating through radio frequencies and picking up the random jumble of stuff that exists on the airwaves. How is it working out practically?
Jason – your approach to the first workshop session we had was very experimental, did you find that the players gave you enough to work with and have you found a solution to your water-valve brass yet (you may have to explain!)? Do you enjoy this kind workshop process – how do you cope with the limitations necessarily imposed on your output?
I was wondering, Gavin, where your inspiration for the dance themes that are flitting through your piece came from (did you say funk or am I making that up) and what is it about fast music that draws you – is it just the challenge or maybe its the latent brass-bander in you eager to make everyone play more notes per second than is actually possible!? How do you guard against notes for notes sake?
Steven, your piece is based upon quite an abstract concept, does it have programmatic elements or is it just the sense of zugunruhe that you are trying to move towards or perhaps even crystallise? Also I saw that your work is numbered: 5 – what happened to the other four incarnations? How long has this idea been an important one to you? Tea break over, lpoyoungcomposergeek signing off…
