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Offline pianowolfi

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Dies Irae 2- Improv
on: December 11, 2008, 10:01:05 PM
A few thoughts/drafts on Dies Irae. I apologize for the rather bad sound, my recording software acts up at the time :P

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Re: Dies Irae 2- Improv
Reply #1 on: December 11, 2008, 10:06:56 PM
Haventīlistened yet but I was just doing the same today and improvising on the theme  :o .In a happy funk groove
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Re: Dies Irae 2- Improv
Reply #2 on: December 11, 2008, 10:10:15 PM
Haventīlistened yet but I was just doing the same today and improvising on the theme  :o .In a happy funk groove

Cool, did you record it? Post here? :)

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Re: Dies Irae 2- Improv
Reply #3 on: December 11, 2008, 10:27:20 PM
I canīt record my clavinet plug-in in real time.  :( I was watching Disneys hunchback in notre dame and was curious if they involved it in the opening track with tubular bells like Berlioz. I realised now that it was there but in the choir but so not in the bells...I looked it up and started out in the same mood as you but it got me depressed so I felt a desperate urge to turn it into something opposite  ;D
 
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Re: Dies Irae 2- Improv
Reply #4 on: December 12, 2008, 06:35:48 AM
I had almost thought that at the 5:00 mark you'd break into tremolos a la Scriabin's Vers la flamme, and I tell you that would have been an interesting development. But that did not happen and there is merit to that as well.

In the structure of certain improvisation, when after getting in a lather of one's sound, there's an inevitable loss of consciousness where what comes out of the strings is deeply rooted in subconscious utterances, a golden section from a certain unconscious focus. This I think is where your improv here leads, and it departs for this land a dwells there from 7:00 until the end.

I don’t think your sound quality is so bad. I can listen to about any quality though, if a performance communicates, and it is oftentimes my favorite performances I like in spite of very poor recording quality (old air checks of various great conductors and orchestras come to mind).
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Re: Dies Irae 2- Improv
Reply #5 on: December 12, 2008, 11:14:33 AM
Hi Furtwaengler
very interesting comment, thank you very much :) "a golden section from a certain unconscious/subconscious focus" that's my home land, actually, where I'd like to speak from, turning it into "overconscious focus" with the time.
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