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City: Bay Area/Santa Cruz
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 11/14/2005

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Saturday, November 17, 2007 

Current mood:  mellow
Category: Music
Here's another message from a listener, totally different than the last one (who could not listen to the music):


Dear Nick,

I haven't been able to get your music out of my head all day.  I absolutely love what you have done to break the boundaries between classical and popular music.  I am an 18 year old cellist going to SUNY Fredonia School of Music for Music Education, and I have been composing as well for about a year now.  I love that your music is not only pleasing to the ear, but also technically interesting-- I just went to a concert for new music last night, and it was so frustrating because all the pieces had great intentions and musical content, but I just couldn't bear to listen because every single one of them was atonal and displeasing to the ear.  Maybe its just me, but I feel like making music should be about evoking a particular response, and the language should be secondary, as a means to accomplish your goal.

It really excites me the way you have cross pollinated the classical and musical worlds.  I love both types of music, and I think that to often people from the "classical" community ignore or gloss over popular music, when it is popular music that actually has a fanbase.  I especially enjoy how you've blended the two not only with instrumentation, but also with musical content.  I listen to a lot of alternative cello music, and bands that play metal on cellos like Apocalyptica, and Break of Reality, but there simply playing popular music on classical instruments.  You've wrapped both into a tight ball and created a new type of music!

Anyways, I would love to play one of your pieces, but I'm not quite sure if I can put together a group of guitar, cello, percussion, and voice etc.  That's why I'm wondering if I could play your string quartet.  Do you have sheet music, or a recording?  I'm in a string quartet, and I know that we would all love to read a piece of yours (once I tell them about you) and possibly perform it.

On another note, if you ever write a piece for solo cello, or cello with accompaniment, please let me know!  I'm craving new music to add to my repetoir that won't make people cringe when they hear it.

Thank you for writing your music, for affecting the musical world in the way that you have, and for affecting me with your sounds.  Keep writing!  You're an inspiration.

Isaac
Jinrith

 
Now thats when you know your a virtuoso!
 
Posted by Jinrith on Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 10:32 PM
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Mrs.Butt
Janell Buttrey

 
When I first heard your music it took my breath away. I was captivated. ALmost like a spell was cast upon me, it went deep. every time i listen now it brings me back to that same place.... i can't quite describe the feeling in a word.... but thanks.
 
Posted by Mrs.Butt on Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 5:32 AM
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Noah
Noah Luna

 
"Your music is a sad caricature of itself that regurgitates a paltry collection of grab-bag tricks and is described with pointless jargon. Shameful self-promotion, while may be appreciated in the business world, has no place in an artistic dialogue with integrity.

Good work peppering in those major triads from time to time." - Dictated but not read.

Call me with any questions.
 
Posted by Noah on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 7:05 AM
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ANTAGONY

 
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway."

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
 
Posted by ANTAGONY on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 9:01 AM
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Noah
Noah Luna

 
"If we turn from contemplating the world as a whole, and, in particular, the generations of men as they live their little hour of mock-existence and then are swept away in rapid succession; if we turn from this, and look at life in its small details, as presented, say, in a comedy, how ridiculous it all seems! It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single life teeming with infusoria; or a speck of cheese full of mites invisible to the naked eye. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly, and struggle with one another in so tiny a space! And whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect."
-Arthur Schopenhaur
See! I too can respond with quotes from the honored dead which are only tangentially related the discussion at hand. Mix it up! Get yer ire, and defend, or attack, or do nothing if it pleases you; but the bob and weave of distracting the opponent with the nimble poetry of saints does nothing but combine the pettiness of response, the cowardice of a straw-man, and the failure to provide a real defense... the worst of all worlds.

- dictated, but not read
Please forward all questions to "info@bcpmusic.org"
 
Posted by Noah on Saturday, July 05, 2008 - 6:42 AM
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Nick Vasallo

 
Get a life...I'm sorry you have nothing better to do than talk about me (still). Jealousy only eats away at your potential for good.
 
Posted by Nick Vasallo on Sunday, July 06, 2008 - 11:15 PM
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Dust
Dustin Smith

 
your music is good
 
Posted by Dust on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 11:08 PM
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