Crash and Burn

[furtwaengler]

August 8th, 2009 is the date, I believe. This is played on a broken Clavinova...how, again, did it break?  

The beginning chromatic scale from bottom to top is a demonstration of the stuck, sticking, broken, and uneven keys. Reaching the top of the scale is as reaching the top of a roller coaster; I had decided by then to follow the instincts, and a piece is born. Lots of violent blips and bloops (you may find humor!) gives way to a long, exhilarating line (on that note, compare to "Warming up" https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=34203.msg396993#msg396993 )


Blip and Transfiguration, it appropriately could have been called. Or Metamorphosis? A pivotal moment is the unfortunate collision with a standing lamp which was too close to the instrument. And there's fire at the end. Crash and Burn.

Have fun with it.  

[pianowolfi]

ugh yeah these awful broken clavinovas... Reminds me of one of my student's...would like to do something similar with that one, and then....

Haha I love that groovy rhythm after the chromatic scale. Certainly you make the best out of the situation and the clavinova, before it's last hour has come. I like this obstinately repeatet seventh, I'm always waiting for it, i would miss it if it suddenly disappeared
A worthy and skillfull tribute to a broken instrument.

[littletune]

cool  

[goldentone]

We're not in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. . . 

I love the part that sounds like a locomotive approaching and thereafter.  Suspenseful and exciting!  That alone is worth the price of admission.   Impressive scalar traversal at the coda.  A fun ride.    

[furtwaengler]

Thanks for the comments guys. It is true I am no fan of Clavinovas, broken or not, but it was served a purpose, and I'd still take it over other electronic piano representations I've tried.

Hmm...a train. It's funny how people often say tornadoes sound like a freight train, but never a freight train sounds like a tornado. I never thought this improv sounded like a tornado (which some of mine do dramatically), but it does kind of sound like a train.