composer's notebook

While following a “Came From” link in my webstats, I found that my friends at the Japan Wind Ensemble Conductors Conference have put up an awesome link to information on the commission, on a page that is clearly supposed to be in Japanese. I don’t know what’s going on there with the html, but I get the gist, certainly, and it’s worth the click for the graphic they made out of the first page of the score. That’s an uncorrected score there, with a mistake on the commissioner line (there’s a fourth commissioner not listed, the Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare “Heartful Winds”). Still, I love the Greek imagery inserted in there–sweet! Unfortunately, in comparison, Konagaya-san’s manuscript looks way cooler than my Sibelius-printout. Perhaps that’s why someone thought it might need some spicing up with a few dancing Muses.

I’m thinking of doing a Call for Artsy Visual Responses (CAVR?) to any piece of mine. Now that the gauntlet has been thrown down, I can hear Photoshop booting up around the land…