… to a pianist friend of mine who ages ago offered to record some of my piano music for me, but perfectionist procrastinator me kept on delaying sending him the scores because they weren’t all perfectly laid out. It’s true that some of them have some problems to be sorted, but there’s no reason not to send off the ones (well, one) that is publicly presentable. So I have sent him Pieces of Eight. We shall see what he makes of its oddities…

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Interesting to read about how his studies in Africa confirmed the direction in which he was heading, and to read his descriptions of how and why he uses the various instruments and voices and phasing patterns in Drumming.

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The first step towards laying it out and then, ultimately, sending it out…

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