The muse (was Re: Improvising vs. composing)

[Mark Hamburg <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>]

One note regarding difficulty finding the muse. Y2K3 was the only
performance that Kim Flint wasn't at...

Mark

on 2/1/04 9:10 AM, Mark Hamburg at mark_hamburg@baymoon.com wrote:

> Loopstock 2002: I personally remember being nervous as hell not having
> played in public since 1987. Jon Wagner's recording of the last five 
>minutes
> of my performance, however, (see http://www.baymoon.com/~mark_hamburg and
> click on the Loopstock 2002 link) still strikes me as turning out really
> well.
> 
> Santa Cruz Y2K2: I just got the recordings a couple months ago from Peter
> Coates. The three pieces had a fair amount of similarity across them, 
>but I
> think they all turned out really well.
> 
> Loopstock 2003: I know I was in a dark, noisy, ambient mode at the time, 
>but
> I haven't heard the recordings to know how it turned out.
> 
> Santa Cruz Y2K3: It had not been a good week for me and the muse was 
>being
> less co-operative. My first piece went way too long as I tried to make it
> work. The other three pieces were better but not up to the standards of
> Y2K2. (If you invite me back this year, Rick, I promise to try to do
> better.)