I don't have any major problems with the new translation. The fan one is more familiar to me, but there are some things that I like in this one (like the oh yeeaah! Made me chuckle a bit). Not a fan of the new music in general, it lacks a lot of the energy that the old music had (which was really important to me), but I think the new graphics look great.
no don't! I meant to mention this before, but are you at all familiar with the works of James Wood? Some of the most out there music i've ever heard/played... and some of the most powerful. He's got a solo percussion piece, percussion quartet, and microtonal percussion quintet that is some of the most moving music I've ever heard... and i don't understand it one bit!
oh yeah, if you've been listening to a lot of Reich, you should listen to some of John Adams more large-scale works! Short ride in a fast machine, nixon in china, lullapalooza (I think that's what it's called)... you can't go wrong!
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Man, I was never able to get into Mahler. I feel like a terrible person for it, but honestly I'd rather listen to Steve Reich pretty much all the time.
When I'm looking for orchestral music with power, I normally turn to Shostakovich. Especially symphony 4! Symphony 5 is good too of course but the 4th symphony holds a special place in my heart :>
moar pics!
crappy Pearl drum set
crappy (but very useful) Musser Xylophone. Don't know the model off hand.
Pearl Symphonic snare drum and all of my music!
I have more stuff than this but it stays at school. :>
So here's part two of my studio! as in, the percussion studio!
here's my attempt to get everything in one shot
My trash table for "...And Points North" (crazy weird theatre/percussion piece)
Musser M55 Vibraphone
Adams 5 Octave Robert van Sice Artist Series marimba