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Today we got real live professional musicians to subject themselves to our midterm projects for 21M.303. It was incredibly cool -- it's always amazing to hear something you've written played with the real instrumentation, not just midi faking it, but also they really really knew what they were doing and had insight both in their playing and in their comments after. Comments into how our pieces (minuet & trio form) did and didn't reflect the period we were trying to emulate, lots of talk about the information in the score besides just the notes (dynamic markings and phrasing and all that) and balancing being helpful with letting players bring their own thoughts in, all sorts of other stuff. It was great.

In other news, if you're not reading Shadow Unit, you totally should be. It's crime drama (I don't even *like* this genre) with an edge of something scifi or supernatural, scary and suspenseful and wrenching and funny and thoughtful all by turns, a group project of a bunch of pro sff writers. They've conceived of it as fan fiction for a TV show that doesn't exist, which is all sorts of interesting in and of itself, but if you're not into the meta then it's still fantastic read as a bunch of short stories. Start at the beginning with their first episode Breathe, and when you get through their latest episode and go "wait, that's all I get for now?" you can move on to searching the site for the dvd-extra style bonus material and other interesting stuff.

(and now I am off to read their latest.)