Improv - October 30, 2005 - Spookey Halloween special

[quantum]

I decided to record some spookey music for halloween.  I tried to express several ghostly ideas, and give an overally atmosphere of creepyness.  Imagine yourself walking through a haunted house and hearing these sounds.  The spirits summons you to travel to the "other side"

Note some of the music is Scriabin inspired, for those who may hear similarities. 

Well here it is.  ... or are you to scared to listen 

Improv - October 30, 2005
Mic: (2x) Studio Projects B1
Interface: Edirol UA-25
Piano: Yamaha C3

Happy Halloween everyone!  Watch out for those dementors from Azkaban ....

[ch0p1n 0wnz u]

i liked it

nice recording sound and quality!

[quantum]

Thanks for listening 

[ted]

The seemingly easy task of making truly numinous and eldritch music is in fact very difficult, as difficult as writing a really frightening ghost story. Both endeavours have been so overwhelmed in recent decades by the continued deluge of dissonant crashes and bangs on the one hand and endless vistas of slime and gore on the other, that listener and reader alike are now inured to all effect. True horror now demands a command of subtlety and delicate implication rare in both literature and music. The only works I have read which come close to it are the ghost stories of M.R. James; these are true generators of the cold frisson.

Anyway, you haven't done too badly here. Parts of it are astonishingly reminiscent of Frank Bridge's "Gargoyle" though, and at one stage I thought I you were going into Ives' "Celestial Railroad". I cannot say I was filled with unease or that I registered ominous portent, as I do with certain music, but the title implies a semi-serious approach, music about music so to speak, and in this aspect it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of atmospheric playing.