> I want to create adventures with sounds.

that's a truly beautiful espression.  I'll keep it as a watchword.

I've been a Csound dabbler for five years, a keyboardist for forty (o my
god) years, jazz, and 'classical', had a passion for music theory (masters
degree in that subject LSU, '92, go team rah) . . which all is to say, I
come at it from another angle than Hans.   Creating adventures with sounds,
is the way I've always approached playing piano, an immediacy of movement
and gesture.

Composition (putting together, compose yourself young MAN! get it toGEther)
is finally the problem, we have this amazing tool for sound making, yet,
putting those sounds together is a really _fine_ problem.

if any sound, and any 'putting together' of sounds, of arbitrary complexity
can be accomplished, then we are faced with Stravinksy's problem of the
infinity of music possiblities (the Poetics, he talks about that . . 'I will
sink my roots' he says somewhere there as a response, in the tones he says,
I will sink my roots .. hmmmmmmm . . . . . . etc. etc. and he speaks only of
the diatonics, I think, only the seven of them(is that correct?? is my mind
leaving me?) or the 12?)

there's the problem laddie, ANYTHING is possible.  _anything_.   but:  it
always was< it simply wasn't always so _easy to prove _. . . .


>  With this wonderful tool, many have
> >simply expanded on previous styles or approaches.

many have.  I've enjoyed to the nth all the csound files I've found on the
net, listening to over and over again.  wonderfull.  but, yes, they are
(mainly) explorations of the sound, rather that compositions per se.  we can
be DRUNK on the sound, though, and I think that is a problem . . joy of
sound, is not necessarily joy of music itself.  a step, to be sure.

The medium also asks for something else, some new thing, something
unimaginable, a new way of putting together.  My own way, is to sit, and
play my heart out.  Midi and score processing, can enable edit, all that,
touch this, tweak that, fix this . in the end, some illuminating musical
light will arise that will glow with all these incredible techniques these
machines enable.  and, it will seem so simple, so obvious.  after it's done.
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