For being one of 8 or so winners in  canon's pageview contest, I told him that all I wanted from him was some of his own sheet music, which I would then interpret...

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3097338/

This is the result, and for various reasons, I don't think it's yet a successful work.

I honestly haven't heard this piece before, so I couldn't cheat and play it by ear; all I could do, at least initially, was take the notes and rhythms right off the page. I guessed a tempo of 120 bpm (the default for the universe). The biggest problem seems to be the missing measures from 9-16; rather than improvise more piano phrases, I tried to get Rosalynn to purr into the mic. Unfortunately, she wasn't into it.

Several measures in here, particular 19, 20, and 23, appear to be computer transcription errors, the kind of thing that happens when a performer plays a rubato, flowing tempo and the computer tries to line the notation up to a rigid grid. But I didn't have any clear-cut proof that this is so; maybe Canon really does have a Zappa-like approach to phrases. So I simply hard-quantized my performance to sixteenth notes to get that spastic syncopation across; to better illustrate it, I left my guide click in throughout.

And finally, I realized as I was doing this that my sustain pedal is elsewhere this evening. So some of this should definitely be "blurred" together, yet I can't do it at the moment. This performance is probably more staccato than he wrote it to be.

Other than that, I think it stands as an object lesson in what can happen when one tries to be too literal and asks no questions. I'm just glad I was able to play it with minimal edits.