Request for my Mollydooker Notes

Joe,

I have hunted for hours. I can find no trace of your notes. Sorry.

The only thing I found that was at all related was a comment by Claude Kolm on 2/27/2008 that reads: "What happened to the case of 92-point Sparky wine you had? Don't tell us you tore through it and guzzled it all down, already."

Jeff
 
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
I found these fragments in a cache file. I don't know what to make of them:

"I'm alive! I'm alive!"

"Eyesight fading. O-"

"-ter 14 days, exp-"

"'m a converterttion ist. Dook me!"

"why wh"

"kane"

Again, I have no idea what these might mean.
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Delightfully funny and Lovecraftian.
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Ah but that's reserved for Coad (wherever he lives) who reminded us that what we saw was only what we wanted to see. And so this post may in fact be written by him as well as the note fragments, perhaps the notes themselves, and Dressner of course. Not the Dressner we know, but the one who appears online from time to time to break us with riddles and paradoxes?
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I talked to Joe's wife at length while at the tasting of his wines in San Francisco last month. The riddles and paradoxes don't bother me but the fact that Joe is preparing a list of future residents for the Gulag left me shaken. Tread carefully and maybe you can avoid incarceration.
 
The Mollydooker notes, er, nightmare...
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I swear that I "got" to play something like the score Don posted for a fellow-student's senior composition project. Utterly unplayable (at least as conceived by the composer) but for some reason they bestowed a degree on him and he's now making a handy living writing source cues for Bolivian telenovelas).

Grossman's tracking sheet actually makes sense to me too - the color-coding helps quite a bit. I've seen similarly obtuse instrument maps from back in the days of four and eight-track recorders where it was really important to know exactly when the horn tracks were flown over to where the castanets used to be. Al Green records are great for playing the "where's the bass now?" game. It was usually right down the middle but sometimes it was expedient for them to put it on one side or the other for a verse so there was room for violins or a cowbell. Nowadays there are no such concerns. Digital tracking allows the musician to be as self-indulgent as they'd want to be, given that your tracks are limited only by the size of the hard drive memory. I don't think we're better off for it - "Sgt. Pepper" sounds as good as it does because they had to work within the confines of the technological limitations of that era; likewise "Pet Sounds", "River Deep, Mountain High", and all of the other great recordings that went away once digital recording became the norm rather than the audiophile exception.

-Eden (about as forgiving in my musical predilections as I am in those related to wine)
 
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Digital tracking allows the musician to be as self-indulgent as they'd want to be, given that your tracks are limited only by the size of the hard drive memory. I don't think we're better off for it - "Sgt. Pepper" sounds as good as it does because they had to work within the confines of the technological limitations of that era; likewise "Pet Sounds", "River Deep, Mountain High", and all of the other great recordings that went away once digital recording became the norm rather than the audiophile exception.
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Agreed. The double edge sword of technology. Maybe it was just the sword with Mollydooker
 
I have checked ev at cp not once in the last five years. Nor ev for three - I trigger some sort of attack if I do.

Maybe I should send cp my address.
 
originally posted by Don Rice:
VoilaThe Mollydooker notes, er, nightmare...
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Do think this would sound better if transposed into F# Minor. The pianist might need both hands to play this masterpiece properly?
 
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