As usual, my aspirations to wake up early and get to working on my piece were dashed by the comfort of my bed. After an extra hour or so of unplanned sleeping in, I awoke to find an increasingly rare sight in Amsterdam...sun! The weather was so very nice today, it was unbelievable (well, it wasn't any better, or anything close for that matter, to the weather in Cali, but something about having like 6 days of straight rain make the sun that much nicer)! Once I finally got into the practice room, I noticed I had a message on my cell. It was my comp professor telling me that I wouldn't have a lesson that day. Since I was in the practice room to scramble some music together for that very lesson, I somehow felt cheated (even though 1. I had procrastinated anyway and, 2. I was now effectively a week ahead). So I quickly corrected that by leaving the practice room in favor of the sun.
In composers' forum, we looked at the work of a Hungarian graduate student and one of our professors (Richard Ayres). Both were quite interesting, in very very different ways. Matyas' work was based on microtonality in pop music, and Richard's music was based on being weird as all hell. The first piece or Richards was a soundtrack he recorded for an art film, in which a ghost of an old man performs fellatio on six men, through holes in a wall. It was, disturbing to say the least.
To top off an already awesome day, my friends that live above me threw me an awesome birthday party, complete with tons of people I didn't know. It was quite a fun night. But I had to head out early, as tomorrow I am leaving for London...
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