Thursday, December 17, 2009

Thoughts On Midterm Concert

1) I think I like my post-midterm compositions better. (Valley Bridge technically wasn't written for the class.)

2) My friends who attended the midterm concert had ideas about who or what was good or bad, and in discussing this with them, I realized that I had an excellent understanding of what kind of sound each person in our GISP goes for. I am able to evaluate every one of my classmates based on their personal style and their improvement, which is a situation I hadn't been in before. It's nice to just focus on songs and be liberated from being biased against someone's delivery or genre.

3) Citalopram really grew on me. That's a wonderful nugget of a song.

4) These recordings sound excellent. It's extraordinary how exquisite these single take performances are. I'm impressed with everyone.

5) It's actually kind of difficult writing about the midterm concert now because I have the final on my mind (which totally blew this show of the water).

6) I wish I had done more collaborating for the midterm concert. I think that's part of what made the final so fun. I suppose it was a lower-key event, but I there are definitely songs here I would've loved to play on, as well as people who I would've liked to have play on mine.

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