Idea soup!

[furtwaengler]

I hope you can eat this yummy soup, made of the ingredients available at the time, joy and sweet. It is quite tasty if you give it some time.  

(I could have called it "Games.")

This happened two days before and on the same instrument as this: https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,33732.0.html

3/11/08. A Tuesday, before the Thursday, two very busy days of the week, but...Oh, to find time, and the hall empty! It's a good thing. I think I just walked in and started painting all over the walls in bright, colorful, bright colors. The two brights are like bookends, with most everything in between, the colorful...that is save for the time that beauty comes to visit. That is maybe the outline to this audio sketch pad, if using those words.

I like to think of this as occurring after Moment of Silence rather than before...a Rainbow after the menacing, destructive storm, that clip of beauty over the devastation. It is decidedly positive, without a bitter note. My reservations in posting this, aside from the sound quality, have been my thoughts of perhaps using some of the materials I'm toying with...but. This is an improvisation, and it has it own endearment and surprise in the layout of what happened.

I did much less cleaning of the sound in Audacity than in Moment of Silence (where I went too far - but I *think* I'm learning).

Please enjoy!

[Derek]

Imaginative playing. I liked it. There were parts that elicited such strange overtones from the piano it almost sounded like certain kinds of organ stops. Cool stuff!

[pianowolfi]

Bright, witty and somehow wild. Very beautiful slow part in the middle. Very good stuff!

[furtwaengler]

I thank you both for listening and commenting. Listening on different speakers I'm ashamed of the sound quality, and I feel I should apologize for that.  But I still have a strange affection what was recorded, and I thank those who've listened. 

[go12_3]

Quite creative with a flavorful of sounds and such interesting passages that
always has an unexpected turns and twists all throughout the improv.
Excellent playing with the flair of brilliance!   Thanks for sharing!

best wishes,

go12_3

[lontano]

Of the relatively few (6-8) improves I've heard here this one really shines for me as the best so far. You're using some very interesting intervals and harmonies wrapped up in cohesive (yet free) rhythmic phrases that work nicely. Keep at it!

Lontano

[goldentone]

Bold creativity.  Your music is fascinating to listen to, Furtwaengler.  You seem to break off the bands of expressive inhibition.

[quantum]

This is a taste explosion!   

There are so many unexpected and fascinating ideas here.

[furtwaengler]

Wow! Thanks for the kind comments, go, goldentone (sounds like I'm stuttering), Lontano (Ligeti fan?  ), Quantum.

[rachfan]

Hi furtwaengler,

This is certainly a very complex piece with a plethora of contrasting ideas.  You used the full resources of the piano, including directly playing the strings.  Very creative!