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Offline m1469

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"Necessities" -- Improv
on: December 05, 2007, 10:37:27 PM
Okay, it's actually a bit intense.  I was fooling around and experimenting when I finally hit on this as something I needed to "say" ... and then I needed to post it ... hee hee.
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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #1 on: December 05, 2007, 11:11:03 PM
View my post and listen, darnit !!  ;D


*hee hee*
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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #2 on: December 05, 2007, 11:11:46 PM
Thanks for posting in, m1469  :D
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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #3 on: December 05, 2007, 11:12:49 PM
You're most welcome, m1469.  YOU are the MOST welcome  :-*.


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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #4 on: December 06, 2007, 12:26:31 AM
This reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it. And I don't think it is a musical something. It reminds me of something apocalyptic. Like a volcano is about to erupt or something like that. I like your free use of harmony as always. I really love the extremely pronounced low note that you alternated with chords at the beginning, it reminded me a bit of Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto right near the beginning. 

Tell me how you come up with cool names for your improv :)

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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #5 on: December 06, 2007, 02:43:39 AM
Hi Derek, thanks for listening and for posting in :).  Yes, somebody else has also said that this sounds apocalyptic.  Sometime I would like the volcano to actually erupt and put that in music  :P.

Hmmmm... well, this name was hard for me.  It ends up just being something that is the essence of what the music is about I guess.  :)
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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #6 on: December 06, 2007, 10:21:23 AM
To me it feels like compression. A compression before an eruption? For sure the volcano will erupt. And here it is concentrating its full energy.

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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #7 on: December 07, 2007, 01:47:06 AM
I felt a sense of grandness, large open space.  With perhaps something boiling up beneath the surface. 

I have attached a musical response.
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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #8 on: December 07, 2007, 03:42:41 AM
Oh, my and oh, boy ;D ;D.  That's all I say for now  :-*.
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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #9 on: December 07, 2007, 02:37:31 PM
Really cool stuff, Quantum :) you try to make the volcano erupt ;D

Okaaaaaaayyy ;D Here I come up with two responses. The first one represents more my resonating with m1469's "necessities" and the second one is  more like an attempt to deal with the boiling forces beyond the surface. Well....I don't feel like I am in the best shape....I mean...sometimes I feel actually like being at an end with my improvs. What can I say anymore after "Styx-A long Journey" and all that came along with it (which is still not all edited yet) Sometimes I think perhaps I have said (almost) all I can. :-X...

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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #10 on: December 07, 2007, 05:28:28 PM
I felt a sense of grandness, large open space.  With perhaps something boiling up beneath the surface. 

I have attached a musical response.

Okay, here you go  ;D.

Also found here : https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,27878.msg322421.html#msg322421
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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #11 on: December 08, 2007, 12:01:29 AM
 8)  The use of sonority... just  ;D ;D.  I love that you are using nuances of resonance to mold your ideas.   It's as if you paint a backdrop of crisp blue sky with eruptions, and pyroclastic clouds in the forefront.   m1469, this is uber.

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Re: "Necessities" -- Improv
Reply #12 on: December 08, 2007, 03:17:11 AM
hee hee ... thanks, Quantum.  Well, I am listening again, it's kind of funny actually, and I am slightly embarrassed.  But, I figure I had to get something like this out at some point.  Now I would like to shape it all a bit more.  Why not ?  I have some more ideas on what to do next, but I feel like I kind of had to just break through some wall or so. 

Anyway, thanks for the inspiration :).
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