0_waylander_0

AAAAARRRRRHHHHH ME HEARTIES!

2006-03-26T21:27:23Z

Things appear to be running quite well for me at the moment. My coursework is on track to be basically all finished by the end of Easter. I have several offers from places I'd like to go, with the lowest one basically being CCDE. My highest offer is also attainable being ABB. I have also managed to get a piece of mine played by the youth orchestra that I go to, with a reasonable reception I think. Impressively, the people next to me were more nervous about playing it than I was, as they didn't want to muck up with the composer sitting playing right next to them :D
Hope to see you all in a cheerful mood tomorrow.

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-11-27T22:15:00

2005-11-27T22:31:37Z

Well, things are getting there. My bass playing has improved drastically recently, although spent too much time with the french bow, so my german style playing has slipped.
I've managed to scrape some time to compose in today, and work has gone surprisingly quickly, helped by me reducing orchestration to two staves until I have the time to set aside to do it properly.
Concert for my orchestra on Friday, which should be fantastic fun. I can't really think of anything I'd rather do with my time then play with that orchestra. Just got to wait for holidays now so I have some time to do what I want, instead of school work.
Got to sort out UCAS too now. Seen enough places that I like now.

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-10-28T20:08:00

2005-10-28T19:21:37Z

Been having a fantastic half term week. Last Friday night I was phoned up by Bob Pepper, the conductor of the English Schools Orchestra, who asked me to play with them this week. The course has been brilliant, the main highlight being the whole of Brahm's Symphony no.1 . The concert is tomorrow at St. John's Smith Square, which is apparently a small venue with many pillars to make sure you don't get stuck behind. My bass playing has moved on so much during this course, mainly thanks to our sectional tutor, Alison Yates, who did a great job.
Had a really good Wednesday night too. Wnet with Hannah to see a concert at the Barbican. LSO played a really good concert. The program was Rossini Duetto for double bass and 'cello, Paganini violin concerto no.1 and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence. I hadn't heard any of the pieces before the night, but all were good.
Oh and Hannah, Alison said the duetto isn't actually too difficult, well, the bass part isn't atleast. My confidence in your playing is much than of my own though.

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-09-06T19:47:00

2005-09-06T18:53:36Z

been very very busy. Done a lot of playing double bass and been very productive in composition. I've almost finished a Piano concerto movement and I've started a new string quartet, a set of piano nocturnes and various sketches for things. Reworking on some of my older pieces is getting there quite well too. Met an awful lot of new people. Who knows what they think of me but of the people I've spent any time with I can say I think quite highly of them.
This is all very short, as is my time nowadays.

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-05-14T20:36:00

2005-05-14T19:55:23Z

I've finally done it. There has been a piece of music that I've heard so many times, but never found out the name of it, and today I know. It's got to be the most beautiful, heart-wrenching thing I've ever heard. Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings Op.11/Angus dei. A chilling piece.

Things have been going quite well recently. All coursework is now out of the way, and all to adequate standard I think. I am now a 2nd Dan Black Belt and I have trained under Sensei Kanazawa on a one day course, who is the chief instructor of the SKI and so basically the no.1 in the world.
I have managed to scrape back some time for composing again. I now have a piano sonata, an overture and a piano trio on the go as well as everything else that I've started. I'll get round to finishing it all some day.

Now I'm going to sit back and relax for the rest of the night. I've been searching through universities and music colleges for prospectus', played a lot of drums and guitar and been composing. I feel in the mood to unwind and again listen through the whole of Beethoven's 9th symphony. It will be the third time in 24 hours. It is a bit of a spoiler though because of how large and spectacular it is, it means that when it finishes I think "what now? what can I possibly listen to now which can be bigger than that?"

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-04-09T18:50:00

2005-04-09T18:05:30Z

Hertfordshire Schools Symphony Orchestra Strings course went well. Thoroughly enjoyable and met another few nice people. Also exposure to a couple of different styles of music that I don't tend to focus on so much.

Repertoire was:-Corelli-Concerto Grosso no.5 in Bb major
-Avro Part-Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
-Tippett-Little music for strings
-Schubert-Mass in C major

An interesting and challenging mix. The double bass I used was nice but fustrating, having 3 flatwound strings and one ridged string, and being an F neck bass instead of the standard E neck bass.

Current works that are getting atleast a cursory glance:
-Cello concerto no.1 in D minor
-Serenade for String orchestra
-Double Bass sonata in A minor
-Waltz for Cello and Piano

My Grandad's funeral has now been and gone so a return to normal will hopefully soon be coming my way.

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-02-06T21:47:00

2005-02-06T21:51:54Z

Martin has told me he is recommending me for a county orchestra. oh dear oh dear oh dear, now I have to get better at passing myself off as okay.
I couldn't resist starting some more composition, so I now have a completed piano ritornello, which will probably go as a set of a few.

Currently working on:

-pair of string quartets, 1 in C minor and 2 in C major

-Sonata for Double Bass in A minor

-Ritornello's for Piano

-Serenade for Flute, Viola, Violincello and Harpsicord in D minor

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-01-24T16:53:00

2005-01-24T16:59:13Z

Finished works (1st draught, once I hear them I may make many changes ;)) that are now finished are:

-Op.1 Duet for Violincello and Double Bass (this will finish being reworked soon, along with the original score being recovered if I get round to asking)

-Op.2 Marcia funebre (for piano)

-Op.3 Sonata for Flute in F# major

Currently working on:

-March in B minor Op.1a (based on themes from the duet, started during a period of dislike for the duet)

-pair of string quartets, 1 in C minor and 2 in C major

-Rhapsody for orchestra in Bb major

-Sonata for Double Bass in A minor

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-01-16T15:33:00

2005-01-16T15:50:27Z

Q: How many 2nd violinists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None, they can't get up that high !!!!!!

Q: How can you tell when a singer is at your door?
A: The can't find the key, and they never know when to come in.

Q: Why are violist's fingers like lightning?
A: They rarely strike the same spot twice.

Q: What's the difference between an oboe and a bassoon?
A: You can hit a baseball further with a bassoon.

Q: Why do people play trombone?
A: Because they can't move their fingers and read music at the
same time.

Q: What's the similarity between a drummer and a philosopher?
A: They both perceive time as an abstract concept.

Q: Why are violas larger than violins?
A: They aren't. Violists heads are smaller.

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-01-04T11:39:00

2005-01-04T11:47:48Z

lets go for some more eh

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0_waylander_0 @ 2005-01-03T23:33:00

2005-01-03T23:33:33Z

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Schizoid	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	86%
Schizotypal	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	58%
Antisocial	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	46%
Borderline	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	42%
Histrionic	\|\|	10%
Narcissistic	\|\|	10%
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Schizoid 53%
Schizotypal 53%
Antisocial 47%
Borderline 47%
Histrionic 43%
Narcissistic 41%
Avoidant 39%
Dependent 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive 40%

well i saw it and though why not :)

0_waylander_0 @ 2005-01-03T14:59:00

2005-01-03T14:59:25Z

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0_waylander_0 @ 2004-12-12T14:48:00

2004-12-12T15:07:33Z

Everything I post will be brief as my memory is poor :)
Watford Youth Orchestra concert went well. Can't wait until I get my recording of the concert and can listen back to it.
The school concert went well too, even if we did play Dvorak Slavonic dance no.8 a little slowly.
I'm currently managing to eat back my time for composing off of school activities. Current projects are:
-a folk music String quartet, starting with a movement that I am doing for my music tech coursework. It is going well at the moment. It's in sonata form and has a completed exposition and the development is coming along. It totals at about a minute and a half out of the three needed, but ideas for it are nowhere near exhausted.
-String quartet in D minor-this has come about due to music coursework. It was originally going to be a movement to a symphony, but due to the way A levels are marked it was impractical. This now means that the second symphony will be waiting a long time before it is done. I've currently only got a second movement underway, as I am finishing school compositional work before I continue with my own work.

Over Christmas I will be working on these two pieces, plus a double bass sonata and reworking plans for my first string quartet I started.

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-12-11T23:49:00

2004-12-11T23:53:04Z

will do a full update at some point, but here's a pic for Barry.

I'm back

2004-10-31T14:22:23Z

I'm now back from my week holiday just over the border in South Wales. It was a rather crap place this time.
I went to the Elgar Birthplace museum, which was quite good. A nice little area it was in. Quite a few samples of the original recordings of his works, him conducting.
Got a reasonable amount of composing done, now being well into Symphony no.2 . I unfortunately have way too many compositions on the go now though. 2 symphonies, 3 string quartets and various other doodles is too much, so no more new pieces to be started now, or I'll be dying young like Mozart :P

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-10-08T21:57:00

2004-10-08T20:54:15Z

Well, I have just had a bath. Unfortunately for me my cd player decided not to work, thus giving me time to think about random things, which is always a mistake.
Topics covered today were mostly religion based. What is put here is vastly cut down, mostly due to my ability to recall is somewhat of a shambles at the best of times.

-Is logic any more accurate a way to live life than faith? Faith is of course without logic, so therefore logic is an irrelevant method of trying to prove gods in religion exist or don't.
Logic is based on observation. In order to observe something we have to assume our observation to be accurate (it is certainly possible for our senses to be giving false information, such as a ringing in our ears or believing we have heard something when we haven't. Also under this comes the ability to see virtual images), and as Matt Gordon insists to keep pointing out, assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups. Assumption and faith are closely related as they both require no factual information to form. It can be said then that both religion and logic are based on assumption and so neither are based purely on fact, but by belief.

-Is God a living being and what consequences are there (using the scientific approach)? For instance if living it would have to reproduce. If not then how does it think, and therefore everything not just be completely random.

-God is the only being that could be completely original. Every other living creature would have some level of mimickery.
That will be enough I think, I haven't the desire to go further at the moment. feel free to say your opinions and pick holes. Just remember if picking holes that this is not a comprehensive account of everything I have thought, and a distinctly small amount of proof-reading has gone into this.

Today...

2004-09-17T15:29:00Z

...has been quite different from a normal day today. firstly i've had people hugging me(well one person) and ruffling my hair (many more than one). this is in direct contrast to the norm where i tend to be left in the corner.
I showed Mr. Weaver some of the music i'd composed and let him listen to a synth. recording, and he said he was impressed. I was also quite impressed when he said about how some of the things in it are very much like how Beethoven composed things. Any link to Beethoven is certain to make me happy :)
It also turns out I'm now drumming for 3 bands in Song & Dance. I will be turning up to some rehersals in disguise in order to change the disloyal impression.
Ahhh and i had great fun playing cards today in the common room. Certainly when playing Cheat in a small group, it spoils a little when the group gets too large. I'd say 6 is about the most for a really good game probably.
Also I didn't imagen me being able to shock someone, but apparently me saying I would go to Izzi's baptism if available does that. The point that i continued to try and assert is that I am personally dead-set against religion and feel it is overall a bad thing, but that I feel it is also a personal choice. I don't know why this is wierd but oh well, where's the fun in knowing everything eh

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-09-12T19:04:00

2004-09-12T18:04:19Z

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994845

brilliant :D

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-09-11T19:54:00

2004-09-11T18:56:01Z

If LJ Was a Bar by Karen_Walker
Username
Bartender	bazzarati
Bouncer	atyearsold
Dancing Badly	squawk
Playing Pool	mizz_frizz
Playing Darts	elvea
Singing Karaoke	dr_ross
Got in with a Fake ID	kym_of_the_mark
Guy with a Mullet	cdtpiper
Too Drunk to Stand	fusionizzd
Hitting on Everyone	darkfire_86
Hot Chick	mizz_marysa

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unfortunately i really could imagen some of these. certainly Jason with a mullet and Ross singing karaoke, oh, and AT shouting the immortal words when trouble comes along of "OH YEAH!" :D

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-09-06T20:36:00

2004-09-06T19:42:08Z

poor ol' Chris Starkey, he is in the same class as me for everything :D
I managed to get Mr. Weaver to play Beethoven's Piano sonata Op.2 No.1 today. sightreading it ofcourse, he managed to do really well. it sounded great. shame he didn't notice the modulation from F minor to Ab major but still, the fact he can smoothly play prestissimo quaver triplets when sight reading is enough to impress me :)
It's seems that the first movement to my symphony opens in a very stately manner. The school orchestra could probably do that movement okay. I might see what Mr. Weaver thinks.
Arg, the pinky on my right hand aches, I'm not used to playing piano, and then I go and play it for a good long while, practising the same few bars over and over again, to make it so i can atleast play something. I think I could get on well with piano, it feels good to play at the moment.

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-09-04T15:38:00

2004-09-04T14:44:13Z

Message to Hannah: Why am i pink on your friends page? do i deserve to be treated like Wagner should? eh? :)

The third movement (in order of writng, it will be the 4th movement of the symphony) is coming on very nicely. I've written another 5 pages for it so far today, so not too bad. It's also got a little complicated though, so i can't imagen for a second the school orchestra playing it. Complicated, ties with demisemi quavers going into semi quavers, then going on to fast pizzicato semi quaver triplets over a large interval, it's not something i imagen the school orchestra doing. Would be great fun to watch the LSO doing though, if i could get that far in Masterprize with it :)

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-09-03T17:14:00

2004-09-03T16:16:50Z

I think i need to find an orchestra to join. I want to do more than the easy-as-pie arrangements the school orchestra gets, I want to play something grander.
Unfortunatly i'm brushing on Grade 6 double bass, and the Watford youth orchestra seems to require atleast grade 6. hmmm, dodgily close :Pofcourse i don't do exams for double bass so i can't even hold up a certificate and say i am :)

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-09-03T16:56:00

2004-09-03T15:58:45Z

Your answers suggest you are a Mastermind

Summary of Masterminds
Visionaries who put energy into achieving their goals
Prefer to work independently and dislike inefficiency
Think of themselves as logical, thorough, and bright
Values practicality and common sense above ideas and theories

I don't so much disliked inefficieny, just plain stupidity...
I'm a head not a heart person it said. well it's not like i have the chance at any point to be much else.

Masterprize

2004-09-02T13:47:47Z

http://www.masterprize.com/home.shtml
i'm going in for it...

and my "Andante abbandonatamente" will do to if i can get it in :D (my next movement i'm writting for the symphony)

0_waylander_0 @ 2004-09-01T15:53:00

2004-09-01T14:56:01Z

Well you have to change things for the best i suppose :)
The first movement of symphony no.1, now complete, is no longer "Allegro ma non troppo" but "Allegro moderato e vivace". i think it will make a marked improvement so there we go.
So, two movements out of the way, 1 or 2 to go.
I.Allegro moderato e vivace
II.Adagio assai
III.?