2 Midi recorded Improvisations

[lostinidlewonder]

I thought I'd post these recordings of me improvising back in 2002ish. I had a Yamaha Clavinova linked up via midi cable to my Pc and recorded the music. I used calkwalk to let me see the notes as I played which was really cool cos I'd never seen that before. Files are really small so shouldn't take those without cable long to download.

[ted]

There are three sections of these which drew my attention. In the first one, I like the all too brief figure at around 0:25 - 0:38 - I wanted this to continue. I think the breaking out into the major at 6:19 is also a particularly nice moment.

In the second one, there is a very attractive descending figure at about 1:17 which begs to be developed.

Admittedly though, with improvisation, the natural tendency to think, "Oh, I would have done such and such with that idea" is simply a subjective indication of what the listener would do and no more, and improvisation, of all things, is very personality dependent.

For some reason Midi recordings on my computer seem to emphasise higher notes at the expense of lower ones so I look forward to hearing you play on a "live" piano, as it were. 

[lostinidlewonder]

Thanks Ted for your comments. That is annoying that the midi is distroted for you, I doubt i myself would be able to reproduce precicely the same thing again but I could get a disklavier to play it.

I do find Improvistation, especially when you play a much more "free" style controlling randomness of your hand with the ear, can produce very facinating results. In the midi's you listened to, I was watching the note being produced on the computer screen as I played, so one could see patterns and form of the notes through that.

I spend lots of time at junkyards scavanging through unwanted things, it is trully amazing what you can find. Improvisation, makes me sometimes think of a Junkyard, full of rubbish, but a few things catch the attention and could, with some effort, be polished and repaired then appreciated.

The Major part in the 1st midi you mentioned was pretty hard for me to maintain because of the 3 voices at the same time.  When you improvise there is only so much you can do if you want to maintain some sort of form to your playing. I sorta like existing in the abstract however I force myself to give some musical form and that limits what you can explore I guess but maintains a "listenable" body of sound whcih is more improtant I think.

The 2nd midi goes more into that abstract than the 1st though. I have heaps of improvisatioms of myself playing from the midi to the computer because seeing notes popping up on the screen when you played on an electric piano was just visual bliss for me. Yes I know sad.