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		<title>New Harmony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I made a discovery. For a while I&#8217;ve been working on new ways of looking at harmony, especially with respect to analysing one&#8217;s own harmonic usage. Obviously listening is usually the first step, but I was dissatisfied with the way that we can describe different levels of dissonance or consonance in harmony. For me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2010/02/new-harmony/</link>
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		<title>ThingNY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having a piece played as part of ThingNY&#8217;s SPAM Concert on the 19th December 2009. In New York!
The concert starts at 7pm New York time, which is midnight (00:00-02:00) Saturday 19th December if my calculations are correct.
The concert with be streamed live here, so tune in if you can. Click here to add this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2009/12/thingny/</link>
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		<title>Overhaul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This site has just had a major overhaul, and been upgraded to work completely on Wordpress.
There are new pages for my catologue of works &#8211; Music; Ninnananna &#8211; with pictures from performances and information; an About page with my contact details; this blog with updates on my research; and the Events page upcoming performances.
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		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2009/07/overhaul/</link>
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		<title>Arduinos, MIDI and real apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since it&#8217;s really been a while since I posted here, I&#8217;m going to publish my research on getting an Arduino based interface to talk directly to something else via MIDI. This project could easily be expanded to more complex solutions (i.e. not just two momentary switches), could easily use OSC, channel MIDI data across a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2009/04/arduinos-midi-and-real-apps/</link>
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		<title>Grisey &#8211; An appraisal of Tempus ex machina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Probably I should introduce this paper, because it will be familiar only to the most hardened contemporary music researcher, at least in the English speaking world. It is Gérard Grisey&#8217;s Tempus ex Machine: A composer&#8217;s reflections on musical time, from Contemporary Music Review, 2:1, pp.239–275.
Firstly I think it would be a mistake to think that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2008/11/grisey-an-appraisal-of-tempus-ex-machina/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on Saariaho&#8217;s writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just finished Kaija Saariaho&#8217;s 1987 paper Timbre and harmony: interpolations of timbral structures, in Contemporary Music Review, 2:1, pp 93–133, I thought it best to commit some of my reactions to it.
There are some particular moments of insight, which I&#8217;ll work through in order. Firstly she cites Kandinsky: &#8220;Form is the external manifestation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2008/10/reflections-on-saariahos-writing/</link>
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		<title>Kurtág &#8211; Jelek (Signs)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This work is Op.5 1961, well before Kurtág&#8217;s works became (more) prominent in the 80s. It&#8217;s a very short affair, very short in the Webernian sense, with the longest movement being 2&#8242;25&#8243; and the shortest 31&#8243;. It&#8217;s for solo viola and examines a range of techniques  &#8211; double stopping, portamento, pizzicato, harmonics, and a very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2008/10/kurtag-jelek-signs/</link>
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		<title>The sound world of the viola</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does one approach writing for viola? Especially an examination of the sounds possible on the instrument. If one was to think about this rationally, pragmatically, there is the (Platonic) concept of the instrument &#8211; as a perfect viola and performer &#8211; and one has all the possibilities of the combinations of viola, bow and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2008/10/the-sound-world-of-the-viola/</link>
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		<title>Viola listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for the upcoming Viola and Electronics piece, I have prepared some listening:
Firstly, CDs in the Lenagan to listen to:
* Garth Knox &#8211; Works for Solo Viola
Contains: György Ligeti &#8211; Sonata for Solo Viola
György Kurtág &#8211; Jelek
James Dillon &#8211; Siorram
Pascal Dusapin &#8211; Inside
Salvatore Sciarrino &#8211; Notturni Brillanti
Luciano Berio &#8211; Sequenza VI
That makes two Transylvanian/Hungarian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2008/10/viola-listening/</link>
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		<title>In the balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything&#8217;s sitting in the balance at the moment. So many things on the scales could tip it in either direction. I am just going to let things tell me the way rather than making a decision just yet.
With tranquility, but with concentration, like watching a beautiful game unfold before my eyes. Once again, it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshkopecek.co.uk/2008/09/in-the-balance/</link>
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