Lovely Piece of Music
The latency issues experienced with most current group online internet sessions makes a lot of music difficult to deal with because of the time delays involved. This piece, composed in 2009, should be suitable for online group rehearsals where it is not necessary to play in time with each other.
'Lovely Piece of Music' is a single page graphic score for performance by one (or more) players. The perfomer(s) interpret the graphic dots and lines to play in a lovely way, and then optionally: separately play in an ugly way. If there is more than one player do not synchronise exactly. It is possible to read the graphic shapes from left to right, starting at the top and moving down the page.
A recording of one interpretation is on Spotify, and the score is available for download free from MusicaNeo and from IMSLP.
Every couple of days I'll describe others of my pieces that can accommodate uncoordinated playing, moving previous pieces into the Blog, and will try to flag pieces by other composers that could work for online playing groups where latency is otherwise a problem. For example 'May Pole' (1971) by Howard Skempton.
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