June 2010
5 posts
NO SESSION - JULY 4TH, 2010
Cafe Racer will be closed this Sunday to honor the 4th of July. Go eat a veggie dog.
Racer Sessions will resume as usual on July 11th. SEE YOU THEN!!!!
Tanya Gleason - June 27th, 2010
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To make beauty. To be aware. That interpretation is this thing we love. To play To laugh improperly. To pride in our awkwardness. To use our collective voice. To fuel love. To scare the shit out of ourselves. In working within the confines of composed words with some truly amazing men, I know that these are the things I believe in most about these sessions. Bring your...
Skiff Feldspar - June 20th, 2010
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An archetype is an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all. In psychology, an archetype is a model of a person, personality, or behavior. The concept of psychological archetypes was advanced by psychiatrist Carl Jung. In Jung’s psychological framework...
Joe Schultz - June 13th, 2010
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Idea 1 –
Write a piece based on “rhythmic shells,” which are written rhythms, filled with whatever pitches the performer chooses to play. If more than one pitched instrument is featured, and they all share the same rhythms at the same time, the harmonies created by the instruments would be quite unpredictable. Percussion instruments can get in on this as well by...
Ray Larsen - June 6th, 2010
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CONTROLLED RANDOMNESS
For the past couple of years, a certain subject in particular has been prominent in directing my musical contemplation and exploration. That subject is “randomness”, or maybe better put, the fine balance between control and an absence of control. It is this subject that I would like to explore together this Sunday, to an extreme and on many levels...