How to drive a music conductor crazy?

[dant]

The score:

source: _http://www.museoarrau.cl/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=2

(I thought about putting this in the humour section, but it is music related so here it is...)

:)

 

[caballero reyes]

Many years ago, whe i was in high school, my teacher of history of music used to say that the less important thing in one orchestra is the director.

 

[D Rusak]

I played a couple of movements once from a piece called "The Thousand Symphonies" of Dick Higgins. The composer set up a bunch of blank orchestral staff paper a distance away and fired a few rounds into them. The paper was photocopied and bullet holes would be interpreted one way, wrinkles and dark blotches on the page, etc. The page would be given a duration during which one would read the assigned staff right to left and/or left to right, and the player would be allowed to interpret these as they wished generally.

I have to say it actually turned out to be a quite powerful and awesome concert. This music can actually be pretty effective and even enjoyable for the audience if done well.

By the way, the encore piece was a simple instruction:
Play a sound that is as exhausting as possible. Continue to play this sound until you cannot play it anymore.
I opted to play two trumpets at once and screech with my voice while playing these. Sustained a slight injury, actually.
The conductor (a guy in his 70s attired in a burgundy velvet sweatsuit) was genius, he grabbed a hold of his conductor stand and gradually began shaking the bejesus out of it, finally collapsing on the floor.

 

[dant]

Since I cannot read Spanish, I assume "the score"
was created by Salvador Dali? And if so, is it music
or is it art? If it is music, where to begin? If it is art,
what am I looking at? Or is it both? Or is it neither?
Maybe it is in the eye of the beholder?

caballero reyes:
What happens if timing gets off kilter, or someone makes a mistake?
Who will take the lead and restore order out of chaos? Can it succeed
without a director (conductor)?
And without a director, how is feeling/emotion shared together by the players?

D Rusak:
An example of coercing order out of chaos (randomness)?
Or perhaps the conductor was going into an epileptic fit or ecstasy?

And what about nature? It may seem random (chaos),
but perhaps someone could coerce order? Such as the
link below?
_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212468/Birds-wire-song-strikes-chord-listeners.html

It's all very interesting, or so I think :)

 

[caballero reyes]

Hi, Dant. I don't believe in chaos of orchestra, maby dissonance or disharmony.The integrants of any appropiate and educated musical group always have feelings and emotions. It is like the Cosmos.

 

[HiThere]

I played a couple of movements once from a piece called "The Thousand Symphonies" of Dick Higgins. The composer set up a bunch of blank orchestral staff paper a distance away and fired a few rounds into them. The paper was photocopied and bullet holes would be interpreted one way, wrinkles and dark blotches on the page, etc. The page would be given a duration during which one would read the assigned staff right to left and/or left to right, and the player would be allowed to interpret these as they wished generally.

I have to say it actually turned out to be a quite powerful and awesome concert. This music can actually be pretty effective and even enjoyable for the audience if done well.

By the way, the encore piece was a simple instruction:
Play a sound that is as exhausting as possible. Continue to play this sound until you cannot play it anymore.
I opted to play two trumpets at once and screech with my voice while playing these. Sustained a slight injury, actually.
The conductor (a guy in his 70s attired in a burgundy velvet sweatsuit) was genius, he grabbed a hold of his conductor stand and gradually began shaking the bejesus out of it, finally collapsing on the floor.

I would have loved to attend this concert!