Name that piano!

[furtwaengler]

This was from October 19, 2009. I decided it would be cool to record the first sounds I made on a piano that was freely give (donated rental, that is) for a concert I played on October 22. I thought about posting after reading Lostinidlewonder's comments on being interrupted while recording, for this here times at 7:43 and ends in my answering the phone.

If anyone is ever disappointed with the outcome of a their own recorded improvisation, I suggest they wait and give it some time. This is the case here, being disappointed navigating this new instrument, having trouble getting a feel for it. Listening now I am quite pleased with the unique figurations and the mysterious progressions, which as they often do carry a somber bent to them (or at least dark, like the recesses of the deep).

I enjoy it and am sure you will enjoy it too.    

[furtwaengler]

Except for its conversion to mp3 nothing has been done to the top file. I am not so sensitive to hiss (I am usually unaware of its presence), but in the case others are, I present this separate file in which I applied minimal noise reduction using Audacity. I am always afraid the hiss isn't the only thing to go in these processes...but I know so little about these things, and how to make recordings. With a $60 voice recorder it's probably a mute point.  

[Derek]

I just decided to randomly check out an old improv. I enjoyed this one a lot.

[furtwaengler]

Thanks Derek! Its nice to see this one pop back up. It's grown on me, but other than listening, I'm not sure what to do with it (or any of the others really...it's become a means to an end).