Attack of the Flies

[quantum]

prepare your bug repellent.

[furtwaengler]

Fox did a TV movie in the 1990's called, "Attack of the Killer Bees," which was just awesome entertainment. I've still got it on VHS, but should loop your music around every time the bees come up.

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Side question: Have you ever considered learning Bartok's 2nd Piano Concerto? This hasn't so much to do with this improvisation - except the middle section of movement 2 can sound like an attack of the flies - but I adore the concerto, which is sadly two big for my own hands to do it justice...but I think, Oh what you could bring to that piece, Quantum!
    
There's a bit more to do with Bartok, in thinking of Ted's wonderful post below. I've never thought of your music as impressionistic, though Ted and I may have differing ideas of "impressionistic." I've thought of the creative period which brought Bartok's Etudes, Violin sonatas, Miraculous Mandarin, etc. as very expressionistic, but thinking about the etudes and the 1st violin sonata specifically (my favorite piece of music, really) it is really where expressionism meets impressionism. I may be out in left field with this, but I can rightly apply Ted's comments to Bartok's music, and your music reminds me of that...but I need to spend some more time working this all out, for it's not there yet!

More later.

p.s. Thanks for writing the next message, Ted!

[ted]

quantum:

This is a delicious piece of impressionism. I can usually make a pretty good guess about how a player is distributing his fingers on the keyboard but what is going on physically, the distribution of notes between the hands and so on, here defeats me completely. I think you are an impressionist in the truest and most general sense. We can all probably do a sort of token impressionism with obvious, caricatured sounds, but in fact improvised impressionism of any depth and substance is a very difficult feat to achieve while simultaneously avoiding the obviously trite, the simplistically twee and the freakishly novel. I have noticed that yours never fall into these traps because they remain valid as abstract pieces of music even without the labels and imagery. Indeed, perhaps that might be the whole paradoxical key to successful impressionism.

[lontano]

prepare your bug repellent.

Very effective! Are your wings tired yet? If Sorabji had composed this he would have kept you playing it for another 13.7 minutes (or 13 pages, whichever came last)! 

[chopinatic]

Great stuff, very fitting title