Inner Circle -- improvisation by Mayla

[Mayla]

Hello, here is an improv that I made on December 11th (I think).  It is somehow a description of a few-day frost that stuck around the house and made it look like snow.  And it is dedicated to a good friend of mine .

Thanks for listening .
Mayla

[pianowolfi]

I have not downloaded this because I have it anyway and listened to it at least 100 times, even I have written it out to play it for myself  It is touching, it is cute and it is very pictorial. I feel the snowflakes touching my cheek. I see the mountains and the sun shining friendly through the clouds sometimes. And what I especially notice is how many variations you make in the right hand, far away from just repeating the same pattern over and over.You have a wonderful talent and are able to express things that are way too subtle to express with words. You are a true and deep musician, who can say a lot with very few notes.

Cheers
Wolfi


Oh btw. it was December 18th I think 

[Mayla]

Well, I have to say, Wolfi, that this is maybe the most beautiful thing anybody has ever said to me about my music.  Thank you very much, this means a lot to me  .


Mayla

[infectedmushroom]

Your improvisation gave me goosebumps the first time I listened to it.


I'm listening to it for the 5th time now and I think it's a very special improvisation. While listening to your improv with my eyes closed, this improv brings me to very deep thoughts. It's like there is no time and it feels very mysterious. I really enjoyed your improvisation and I'm sure I'll be listening to it the next days.


Beautiful.

[pianowolfi]

 

[Mayla]

Your improvisation gave me goosebumps the first time I listened to it.


I'm listening to it for the 5th time now and I think it's a very special improvisation. While listening to your improv with my eyes closed, this improv brings me to very deep thoughts. It's like there is no time and it feels very mysterious. I really enjoyed your improvisation and I'm sure I'll be listening to it the next days.


Beautiful.

Thank you, infectedmushroom, for taking the time to listen and to respond .  I appreciate it.  It's always interesting to read how certain musics affect other listeners.


Mayla

[pianistimo]

i wish i could improvise like this.  i've composed a few pieces, but they never get beyond a page or two.  improvising, never.  my bro used to do this and i'd just marvel.  whatever he heard in his head - he'd just do.  this is probably the most musical indication of people.  but, hey- i sightread well.  plagarizing off other people's pages of music and just enjoying the creative process vicariously.

i think once you play enough of other people's music - you get the idea for how to put a piece together halfway decent.  it's just - i have a lot of unfinished works around. 

songs are easy for me though.  i can compose decent songs that are short and sweet.  once i tried a choral piece.  it was sort of a take-off on beethoven's choral at the end of the ninth symphony - but was fugal to start.  also, i composed a song about a woman sweeping snow off her driveway (instead of shoveling it).  it was a sort of 'modern' sounding piece and had some large leaps in it that made it sound 20th century - but still had a nice sound.  kind of like samuel barber's stuff.  or ives.  sort of modal.

now, this was kinda modal, too - right?  how many notes did you stick with? 

[pianowolfi]

I have lived with this music for almost five months now and I am by far not yet done with thinking about it. And now I had the wish to write another comment. The score, (which I have written out back then) is most of the times on my piano so I can see it every day. Though I play it rarely because it is something holy to me. Every time I DO play it is a special moment. To me it gives a glance of eternity, of unity, of all I ever strived for. It is as if someone watched me at the moment of being created and now wants to remind me of that moment. It is like a remembrance. But at the same time it is such a new world to me, something that lets me see hopefully into the future, into a future where I and everybody who wants will be in peace with each other, will understand each other. And to me it has been and is still a sort of stimulus to get aware that we as humans are all much more than we think in our sometimes limited view of ourselves.

Well actually it is more than a wish to write this now, it is more like a need, but a very free need, if that makes sense. Well you know that I like all of your Improvisations, especially the one you did recently, “lost myself”. I very much hope that you will continue to speak to us all through your music. 

[berrt]

Pianowolfi, I had the delusion of being the head of the mayla-fan club - in reality, it's YOU! :-)

B.

[pianowolfi]

Pianowolfi, I had the delusion of being the head of the mayla-fan club - in reality, it's YOU! :-)

B.

LOL well I actually don't feel like being the head of something This imagination even scares me a bit...(*looks around a bit unsecurely*)I even didn't know know that there is a fan club at all.  Anyway I hope there is one. May it grow I wrote this because I just felt like writing it today and because I really lived with this piece of music very intensely for a certain time. I never would dispute your position in that fan club.

[berrt]

I never would dispute your position in that fan club.

I am the only member... so my position is absolutely safe

B.

[Derek]

thanks for posting, Mayla. I agree with pianowolfi that you can say a lot with few notes.

some parts I liked:
:37 - love the arpeggiated left hand gestures there
1:23 - liked that phrase in the left hand before the silence
1:50 - I like the singing left hand melody here a lot

[pianowolfi]

:37 - love the arpeggiated left hand gestures there
1:23 - liked that phrase in the left hand before the silence
1:50 - I like the singing left hand melody here a lot

Wow it makes me shiver even thinking of it

[electrodoc]

Don't know why but it sort of gave me the impression of a Rachmaninov prelude.
Very beautiful . Well done.

[pianowolfi]

Very good, keep listening people! I want 100 downloads by the end of the week

[Mayla]

Pianowolfi, I had the delusion of being the head of the mayla-fan club - in reality, it's YOU! :-)

B.

I am the only member... so my position is absolutely safe

B.

Berrt, well, I think this is too cute to go without a comment from me... hee hee.   I am not quite sure what to say, except for thanks and you are very nice  .

[pianowolfi]

This is one attempt out of four. I played it somewhen in August or September 2007, I am not sure about the exact day. I know, of course I can't play the original like you, Mayla, it's a bit too fast and uneven in parts

my tribute to a piece that influenced me very much