"Hear" - improvisation

[m1469]

Do you know? 

[ted]

Showing again that interesting improvisation does not require pummelling the instrument through the floorboards at ninety miles an hour. The two chordal sections make for a nice overall balance and the sparse texture coaxes the ear out of its easy chair.

Oh yes, I know all right ! They all float down here ! You'll float too when you're down here !

[pianowolfi]

It makes me happy to listen to this! I feel like I understand your musical language instantly!

[furtwaengler]

This one word sums up the theme of my life the past two years. "He that has an ear, let him hear;" the fact we've been given eyes and ears and often don't do such a good job using them with the result our eyes get smeared over, our senses dull. The bareness of your words, "Do you know?" also take me to this same place.

As for hearing the improv, it conjures up a snowy wilderness landscape similar to that of Sibelius's 6th Symphony (which come to think of it, somewhere in my stack of stuff I have a disk I burned with a live performance of Sibelius's 6th, maybe with Sinaisky  conducting a British orchestra, but I had filled the disk out with some of your improvisations I had downloaded! That is really just a random coincidence). It builds to a yearning, depth of the soul climax which makes me wonder, what would it be like to hear it played by a string sextet?