The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma
-- like the days when everything used to sound like that.

Some people crave baseball -- I find this unfathomable --
but I can easily understand
why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon.

Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not wisdom,
Wisdom is not truth,
Truth is not beauty,
Beauty is not love,
Love is not music
and Music is THE BEST
- Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa, inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Tributes:
"I was surprised that someone could be so multi-talented, such a good writer, and so articulate a composer. Moreover, he was a virtuoso technician on guitar and had an incredible sense of humor. He had all those skills and the ability to conceive, write, and orchestrate very complex orchestral scores.

--- Kent Nagano, music director of the Opera de Lyon. Paris.

"It was important that Frank be shown to the world not as a rock star, but as a serious composer."

--- Dr. Dieter Rexroth, director of the Frankfurth Festival

"My first reaction was that I couldn't believe it. When I learned that Frank Zappa was a composer of serious classical music, I told my partners, "Okay, there's some of these pop stars who try to do this kind of stuff, but I am sure that he is just a beginner." I was really surprised when I saw the high quality of compositions like "Mo 'N Herb's Vacation."

--- Andreas Molich-Zebhauser, director of the Deutsche Ensemble Academy

"Americans are really suspicious of anything cerebral, and Zappa didn't disguise his intelligence well enough. In addition to being a man of wide-ranging talent, one amazing thing that always struck me about Frank was his melodic dimension.....Frank Zappa was my Elvis."

--- Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons

"Never stop until your good becomes better, and your better becomes the best." --- Frank Zappa



Topic:
ALGORITHMIC COMPOSITION
Is it possible to emulate a model of the process of creativity?

Being inspired, having the visualization and proceeding with purpose to create, is usually going to be the order of steps that a composer would take. At that moment of blinding insight, emotionally charged and unmistakably unique thoughts occur. Sounds arrive in whole flurries of phrases, humming passages, suites of songs, even entire imaginary scores with clear details marked out in abstract symbols to encapsulate the beauty of infinite vistas with pure harmony of the spheres vibrating throughout. The results would be inexplicable and unstoppable. Literally being carried along on a force outside of yourself, a stream of consciousness that sweeps you along to the ocean of your dreams.

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