In to the city before lunch last Thursday. Cab from the line over the hill into La Jolla and up the drive to Mandeville. Text message from Rick points to power outlets and espresso in the green room. An hour extracts Rick and Kate from classes.
Down graffittied stairs, across a couple of concrete courtyards, and into a massive AV cage to check the MacBook / projector hookup. It works. Contemporary Music with Charles Curtis. Rob Esler, a triangle, and Alvin Lucier.
Back at the apartment, greens from the garden, magic dressing, almonds, pork chop and Kate's magic tossing of stuff together. Dinner at Cotijas with Rick and Reiko and then back to campus for video snippets of Kurtág and Tony's brilliant performance of the Kafka Fragments in a damn cold Mandeville Recital Hall. Roger Reynolds and Philippe Manoury. Harvey Sollberger, too.
Up late to write notes but in bed before Ian got in. Up early Friday; more notes. Campus at noon for the talk. But no projector. Maybe a cheap projector off ebay. For travel, in the carry-on.
Plenty of LilyPond but not enough python and just the tip of the iceberg for the really cool patterns. More pattern matching, more string manipulation, and more transforms later at Columbia.
Ben: "What should be the role of randomness? And what's the value of discrete control?"
Adam: "How do scores optimize for multitempo work?"
Arshia: "What's the relationship to OpenMusic? Why python instead of LISP?"
The practice room with Reiko. SEKKA works. Beautiful shapes and beautiful shaping. Reiko gets everything by instinct and pitches here and there sound so beautifully.
Reiko, Ian, sis, Rick and Kate for sushi over the hill. Drinking, pizza. Then beers -- homebrewed and on-tap -- at Ben's.
Ice shuts down Dallas on Saturday and tickets back move to Sunday. Hard to complain walking Pacific Beach. Vintage stores and shopping. Who knew kelp could fly so far? Pink neon signs and Thai food for dinner. And Cuarón could do better next time.
Beautiful and chillly with cold little hummingbirds stopping to rest. Next a trio. And then back. Maybe, soon.
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