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Piano Board => Audition Room => Improvisations => Topic started by: kalospiano on March 31, 2021, 09:24:22 PM

Title: piano improvisation on Picasso's "Guernica"
Post by: kalospiano on March 31, 2021, 09:24:22 PM




My last painting-inspired piano improv. Probably the most imprecise but also one of the most felt, and somehow I think that the technical imprecisions actually go quite well with the cubist/surrealist style of the painting. I use clusters, low octaves and rapidly repeated, percussive chords to evoke the atmosphere of chaos and terror, the explosions and the crying of people and animals running everywhere. Descending chromatic scales are meant to imitate the falling bombs. I also inserted a couple of quieter moments lingering on the whole-tone scale to let the listener take a break from the constant movement but also to depict the sensation of utter loss and bewilderment that I can only imagine must have been felt at the time by the victims of the bombings. The ending is something that I'd probably slightly change on a second attempt, making it more sudden and unexpected, but still I'm quite satisfied with the final result.
Title: Re: piano improvisation on Picasso's "Guernica"
Post by: ted on March 31, 2021, 09:50:05 PM
And so you should be satisfied with this splendidly evocative response. There is nothing lacking in your technique either, which is fully up to a very difficult piece of impressionism. Personally, I have found second attempts usually fall short of expectation and I therefore avoid them but that might just be my sloppy approach to music in general.
Title: Re: piano improvisation on Picasso's "Guernica"
Post by: ronde_des_sylphes on April 01, 2021, 10:48:41 PM
This is quite an imaginative improvisation! Definitely one to remember.
Title: Re: piano improvisation on Picasso's "Guernica"
Post by: kalospiano on April 13, 2021, 07:53:48 PM
Thank you both Ted and Ronde
Title: Re: piano improvisation on Picasso's "Guernica"
Post by: volcanoadam on April 13, 2021, 09:16:05 PM
That's very well done! Love it.