Time 0--Improv

[pianowolfi]

This is dedicated to all members of the "improv community" here.
Perhaps the title is not so important, I could call it also "The giant and the dwarfs", for instance. Enjoy

[m19834]

Hi Wolfi,

I am listening to your improv right now.  Wow, this is very harmonically fascinating to me and texturally interesting for me as well.  There is in this your mature musical character that I appreciate so much, balanced with a kind of childlike curiousity about life, as well.  I just love this change at 30 seconds in and a little beyond, taking us a little deeper into the other world where you seem to be speaking from.

I am curious what would be your thoughts regarding the possible title of the "Giant and the Dwarfs" ... you don't have to divulge of course, I am just curious .

Thanks for posting this .

[pianowolfi]

Hi Karli

thank you for your comments, interesting observations and listening The first idea to this improv was coming from the point where another piece which I played 3 years ago in 2005 has left me. The name of that other piece was "via dolorosa"  This piece here came from my idea of a person who has witnessed a "via dolorosa" or something similar meaningful and is now doing his/her first steps after this experience, starting from a new point in time, an "hour 0" It's part of a bigger conception and perhaps one day there will be an edited version of it in my programs.
Anyway, after listening again to it a few times I thought that as well it could be an imagination of a giant walking and all the rather polyrhythmic or more lively figurations around the steps could imagine a couple of dwarfs who are trying to cheat him a bit, and the giant is trying to keep going steadily, but sometimes a bit distracted by the dwarfs. Somehow the more serious idea I had first suddenly changed into something rather witty and, honestly, I was a bit drawn back and forth between the two aspects.

[furtwaengler]

"It Drips."

I wish, oh I wish, that I had the equipment that produces such nice recordings as yours, Quantum's, Karli's, Rachfan's, and others. I might actually have the equipment, but am so technologically ignorant. Now I'm thinking out loud and doing it on your thread...

It sounds good, is all.

I don't know exactly what this means, but listening to myself, I think I can make 12 minutes sound like 2 hours, and here you make 6.5 minutes go buy in 30 seconds. And there is a healthy complexity that is simply and nicely contained.

I like both your posts and your music.

[pianowolfi]

"It Drips."

I wish, oh I wish, that I had the equipment that produces such nice recordings as yours, Quantum's, Karli's, Rachfan's, and others. I might actually have the equipment, but am so technologically ignorant. Now I'm thinking out loud and doing it on your thread...

It sounds good, is all.

I don't know exactly what this means, but listening to myself, I think I can make 12 minutes sound like 2 hours, and here you make 6.5 minutes go buy in 30 seconds. And there is a healthy complexity that is simply and nicely contained.

I like both your posts and your music.

thank you furtwaengler! "It Drips" could be even a different title for it I love stalactite caves so much ...well just another inspirative idea...

Actually I used only a minidisc to record this, some other recordings I did with a Yamaha workstation but I couldn't find out the right settings for that one yet. I like the term "Healthy complexity"

[goldentone]

Hi Wolfi,

This is a difficult one to characterize in its thematic direction.  There is a point at the beginning which sounds like the soul seeing a sunrise in a new world for the very first time.  But soon after, confusion and upheaval.  There are some very beautiful moments that sparkle amidst the chaos in this complex improvisatorial utterance.  I like its mystifying atmosphere.

I've enjoyed it a lot.  Thanks for sharing.

[pianowolfi]

Thanks Goldy, for listening and commenting I'm sorta living at this mystified place at the time, maybe there will come more utterances from there... I'm always working on getting things more clear.