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Topic: Four short improvs  (Read 1775 times)

Offline pankrpec

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Four short improvs
on: September 18, 2012, 09:59:36 AM
These are short improvisations from some time ago, they are not musically related to each other or something like that, but I just didn't feel that I should make a post for each one as I don't have anything to say about any of them in particular. Their names pretty much sum up my thoughts about them.

All of them are under 3min so its about 10min in total listening time.
Well, I hope you'll like them.
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Offline furtwaengler

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Re: Four short improvs
Reply #1 on: September 22, 2012, 07:42:51 AM
Great atmosphere in footprints with the repeated notes and the resonance, and also the sense of structure paralleling the idea of repetition.

Listening to Tin Soldiers. There is something compositional about it, driven by the rhythmic and harmonic patterns.

Reconciliation flows rather naturally out of Tin Soldiers.

Rice field is a calm and pastoral conclusion to the set. The pentatonic language is quite picturesque. I could see this sung in some way, whether imaginary or realized. The end is quite the twist...left hanging in the air.
 
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Offline pankrpec

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Re: Four short improvs
Reply #2 on: September 25, 2012, 01:17:19 PM
Thanks for listening furtwaengler, and thanks for that little analysis, that tells me that you actually listened to the improvisations rather than just playing them in the background as I am guilty of doing most of the time. Not that I would be able to analyse anything.
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
 

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