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Topic: My Day---Improv  (Read 3084 times)

Offline pianowolfi

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My Day---Improv
on: June 25, 2007, 07:01:02 PM
This is an attempt to express through music what happens within myself during a "pretty normal day" of my life. Only once in a while I really can express it through an improv like this one. During all the other days things just happen....  ;D

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Re: My Day---Improv
Reply #1 on: June 28, 2007, 01:29:05 AM
I like the beginning and the first half, Wolfi. You make good use of slow, clockwork rhythm and sparse harmony to produce an effectively ominous effect. I don't know about the impressionistic title though. Is your day really that menacing and sinister ?
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Re: My Day---Improv
Reply #2 on: June 28, 2007, 01:49:44 AM
I like the beginning and the first half, Wolfi. You make good use of slow, clockwork rhythm and sparse harmony to produce an effectively ominous effect. I don't know about the impressionistic title though.

I think this might be the last or one of the last improvs in my "phase 2", the phase after "Styx" (Feb. 3 until now)  I feel like a bit stuck in this style at the time.  Time for a break.
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Is your day really that menacing and sinister ?

Not always, fortunately. Often it's better. Sometimes worse though. But these menacing days have very interesting aspects, I think, sometimes. I practice how to cope with them. Like many of my improvs this one is in a great tension between B flat minor and D flat major, "darkness" and "light" to me.

Cheers :)

Wolfi

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Re: My Day---Improv
Reply #3 on: June 28, 2007, 07:04:39 AM
1:38 - nice progression
2:10 - I like the stepwise motion of the inner voices
2:49 - you take the steps to the bass
3:12 - cool
3:26 - :)
3:32 - menacing chords, I like that dissonant minor 2nd
4:08 -  :)
4:55 - surprise  :)
5:13 - suprise resolution!

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