Comments for Romano Crivici

Comment on Howling at the moon by William

William — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:22:14 +0000

Ok, why can’t I hear the howling? Or the barking……are you [barking, I mean]? To me, its obvious, a performance in a playground, out of doors on a weekend afternoon. Spring is coming, so is summer – both good times for music and howling.

Comment on The count down begins by Souchou

Souchou — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:49:57 +0000

It was a nice afternoon turning the manuscript of ‘dead songs’ of the communist into songs – the transcendence of historical time. We were messing around to get that tonality which we might recognize as Chinese. It is a funny, with such a rich subject the only anthropology work I know of is by John Blacking, a concert pianist-turn anthropologist working, the last I heart, at Edinburgh University. He wrote about drum rhythm as contributing a social group solidarity – much in the way a chamber orchestra is ‘constituted’ as a ‘society’ by their playing. Going far beyond this meditation, I have for a long time trying to understanding how do cultural elements get imbedded into a piece of music which when it is played, we recognize it as Chinese, of a Mozart. At the end, it is like learning Chinese, it is getting that little pauses, little turn of the strokes/phrasing, otherwise it sounds mechanical, as our first attempt at the piano. (My fisherman informant in Hong Kong when he listened Glenn Gould’s playing Bach’s French Suits, said that ‘it sounds like sewing machine!’). And cadence is even more cultural distinct: the few bars at the end: ‘when life is like a bird without wings’, I thought you got it. It sounded like the parting song of a man about to die at the gallows.

Comment on The count down begins by marina

marina — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:00:42 +0000

The liminal space. One sleep to go… and we enter the heart of the matter…

See you on the other side.

Comment on The count down begins by Romano

Romano — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:46:22 +0000

Intentional!? I usually try to hide it, but sometimes that spontaneous inner radiance is just uncontrollable -especially if I’ve been eating a lot of garlic, or Limberger cheese.

yours, bathed in a soft blue inner glow,
Swami Roma-banananda

Comment on The count down begins by Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:10:31 +0000

I really like the photo – it’s very flattering. Is the halo of light around your head intentional? Regards Ruth

Comment on Why a website? by William

William — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:52:03 +0000

Very profound, yet so true of all of us in our search for relevance & meaning, not to mention a little recognition from time to time.

Comment on collective unconscious by admin

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:32:00 +0000

Here is my reply. But who am i?

Comment on collective unconscious by Stefany Sacayanan

Stefany Sacayanan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:39:02 +0000

Great post, I bet a lot of work and research went into this article.

Comment on collective unconscious by Brydon Stace

Brydon Stace — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:14:31 +0000

I really like it!

When I first logged on I thought it looked a little stark, but the style of the site grew on me and as the person who commented previously said, its quite calming. It looks as if most of what was suggested has already been implemented, so i found everything worked well, the pages loaded quickly and all the info was relevant and to the point.

Really great to hear from you after such a long time and I’m so glad you are still flying the flag for Creativity and Spontaneity. Please keep me in the loop.

Comment on collective unconscious by William

William — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:02:16 +0000

Romano,
I like the simple uncluttered monochromatic style. Let’s you focus on the content, and is calming on the eye.

Ok, in no particular order – here is my feedback on the site:

- the order of items on the main menu is alphabetical. The Home item which is normally at the top, is in the middle
- suggest putting a simpler copyright statement on the lower gray bar that appears on every page, replacing the ‘Neutralis Theme……..’ statement [which has no value or meaning in this context]
- On Film Scores’ there are no videos appearing [I'm using Firefox]
- there is inconsistency between the various ‘read more’ links – ‘for more’, ‘Click HERE…’, ‘More info…’, ‘Read More’ etc
- the pictures on Discography seem too small. Going to the next page, the pictures are not much larger. Would suggest making them larger on both pages.
- The Contact Me page formatting and menu is all messed up.
- There are inconsistencies with the use of fonts, font sizes, heading fonts & sizes, use of bullet points, line spacing, paragraph spacing, underlining and text justification throughout the site. Underlining is normally only used for hypelinks
- In Music Groups the pictures are out of alignment
- I noticed that ‘New Gen Philarmonic’ is on the main menu AND under Music Groups, is this intentional?
- Recent Projects – I would suggest reverse chronological order [like a CV]. Normal convention.
- Website Credits – the text is out of alignment
- Works Listing – apart from the various text formatting and alignment problems, there is a large heading ‘Music For Kids’ that appears half way through, left-justified, which suggests that the rest of the page is all under that heading. Is this right?
- Should the colour of the green ‘back’ arrow be changed to make it inconsistent with the design theme?

Overall, it is very good. You’re nearly there. I’m looking forward to the launch! When is it going to be?