Mid D run tonight with Mohawk Cat tonite: about 14 mins




Bits and pieces of the past return to haunt me.

Perhaps its impossible to fully start anew. Perhaps more time is required.






I was attacked viciously by a cat in the gym today.

You know one of those cats that claw and cling on to you and won't let go?

I think I was more shocked than anything that such a method of fighting/wrestling existed.

I must de-claw that Mohawked Cat.


I think I look funny playing the piano. One of those things that you can't help to be a little overly self-conscious about because when I'm into my music I really aren't aware of anything around me or what I'm doing or how I look. Its all about the music.

Ironic I guess, for someone to have performed so many times, in front of a 3000+ crowd on several times, and a member of the british royal family to find the way that he plays weird.

My favorite moving piece

Anyway that's the vid that the guys on ocremix say that it looks like Arnold is playing the piano. wth?



Its funny how by the length of emails, you can tell how old a person is. The older you are, the more you seem to have to write in emails:

Kid:
hey, i was listening to your remix 'ascension to cosm canyon' and it was really superb, and i was wondering if you'd be able to send me sheet music or the file for the it on the program that you made it on, but if you aren't able to or just don't want to all's fine and well but could you please at least e-mail me back, thanks for your time

Another slightly older Kid:
Um, just wondering, how did you teach yourself? I was thinking of quitting this online game I've been playing and starting to focus more on music, my writings, and my work. If you don't mind sharing your secret, I'd love to learn more. You're seriously like my mentor, I talk about you all the time to my family and friends.

Sort of strange, I know. But at least I know you as a first and last name, not just a nickname or username.

Anyway, it's great to be able to talk to you like this. I hope I can keep conversations like these with you while I study the piano. I have personal aspirations myself to do with the piano.


ADULT:
Hey there!

My name is Kenley Kristofferson and I host a podcast called "Into the
Score," which is a podcast that focuses on the academic and scholarly
study of video game music. In the show, we take a game and discuss
what the industry was like when it was released and how the game
essentially came to be, then follow up on the composers and why the
game was cutting edge, especially the music from it! From there, we
explore some pieces from the repertoire and analyze the melodies,
harmonies, orchestration and how the music links together in the game
to form a nice cohesive unit! From there, we explore some
macro-musical concepts (if I may coin such a phrase) such as
leitmotifs, thematic progressions, programmatic elements in the
score... all that good stuff, usually lending examples from classical
repertoire... (it's the music teacher in me, lol!) The fun part of
that too is that it's a pedagogical moment in the episode, where the
show can teach the audience something that they didn't know before...
then how it relates to game music! At the end of the show, I'll find
an arrangement or a remix of a piece from the game that we're
studying and play it to cap things off - it shows that the piece is
important to other people and the community, you know? :)

It just started up this month is released every two weeks, as I am
also finishing up my last year of Music Education at the University
of Manitoba (yay Winnipeg!), so if you haven't heard of it, I
definitely will not be offended :)

Now that the show is explained, I'm going to do a three-parter on
Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross and the musical parallels between the two
in February and, as we discuss an arranging/remixing project at the
end of each show, Chrono Symphonic is the obvious choice to wrap up
the CT episode (because it is brilliant and written incredibly
well!). Chrono Symphonic is one of the best projects that I have
ever experienced and in my opinion, one of its crowning achievements
is "To Far Away Times," a glorious piece which you to which you
contributed!

Because it is one of the best remixes that I know of, I think that it
would be a shame not to be able to play it through (I'm not sure if
copyright laws apply to OCR), so I thought that I would email you and
Reuben Kee and ask if it would be alright to feature your piece on my
podcast by playing the whole thing... is that okay? I just... man...
it's so good! It is one of the quintessential remixes in the entire
CT library... man, it's brilliant!

If you could send me a note back whenever you get a spare minute,
that would be stellar! Thanks so much for contributing great music
and being part of such a great project!

Until next time,
Kenley




Ugh I can't find the ones from the uni students. I should log these "fan mail" more often and do a study on them or something.