Dear All,

Thank you for your acknowledgements. If there are some members who wish to send me new or existing materials to listen and/or comment, please make sure that no single file is larger than 10 megabytes. Feel free to include any explanatory notes or essays.

For those of you whose music has just been commented by me, or who intend to take up my offer and send me some of your music, I thought it might help even further if I explain just a little how I listen and review the music played.

I generally make no distinction between live playing, live playing with some post-editing, and the purely sequenced using step edit. It is purely a function or requirement of taste, convenience, the playability of a musical passage and/or the individual's playing skill. Some figurations or gestures just sound unconvincing when played live, such as a cymbal roll, an extremely fast passage, a pointilistic effect, and arpeggios with notes widely spaced between them. By all means, you could alert me to how certain features or passages are achieved.

Generally, I make no difference between styles, sounds and automatic accompaniments that are pre-existing and those that are created anew. However, I do look for artistic elements concerning forms, changes, developments, transitions, variations, surprises, originality, unusual combinations/uses of materials, interpretations, transformations and fusions.

Notice that I have not mentioned anything about tempi, rhythms, genres, length of a piece, and other fundamental aspects of a piece of music ---- they are simply not as important, as long as they do not detract from the presentation of your music and your intention(s) in/for the music.

Keep the creative juice flowing!

Khai


[This message has been edited by Khai (edited 01-15-2005).]