Rich Seymour's stochastic statements.

I’m getting overly excited about seeing Glenn Branca’s Symphony #13 ‘Hallucination City‘ (for 100 guitars) tonight at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. I have a Theoretical Girls CD (meh… conceptually good) and Symphony #6 ‘Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven’… I think that recording is simply amazing. I’m going to bring earplugs in case amazing translates into absurdly deafening.

Oddly, though, I met a professional sound guy the other day who does live sound at the Rose Bowl and he said that sound guys almost never wear hearing protection unless everything is all set. Even then, he uses something from a Dr. that does like -13dB across the frequency spectrum, not the muddy -20-30dB you get in the pharmacy.

I’m finally atoning for missing the performance in 2001… why didn’t I go then! Originally, I think they had Wharton Tiers (who I think I’ve only heard as a producer) up as the drummer, but that has changed to Virgil Moorefield who… has written an interesting book I’m going to get from the library when it comes in: The Producer as Composer

(edit… more additions)

So, I just read an online interview with Mr. Branca, in which it states that he was influenced by reading the likes of Helmholtz (of Helmholtz free energy fame to you thermodynamicists). I had managed to take out Helmoltz’s book “On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music” which is a really awesome (and a might bit hard to penetrate) book on sound. It’s pretty amazing and I look forward to finishing it or at least getting more than ten pages into it sometime. Meanwhile I’m reading more about fluid mechanics for school. Hot diggity.