Great Red Spot - a chomatic vision

[furtwaengler]

May 22, 2010 - the last time I touched a piano. (I've practiced a bit on the banged up Clavinova - this does not count.)

This is a problem for me that I flip on a recorder, a bad recorder already, with the absolute worst setting to record (hi-mic recorded voice a day before) and end up really liking what I played, which is only preserved in this unfortunate way...but wanting to share it because I like it. Well?

Guilty I am. It is only sequences of chromatic events in a window of under 18 minutes, but sequences leading along the way to a variety of harmonic interests (which all sound like the tension releases of my typical language) and dramatic explosions. The biggest problem is the lack of dynamic variety the hi-mic setting of a voice recorder in a small live room conveys. Use your imagination...the softer textures are the ones that sound clearer...I suppose it was mostly loud anyway. Alterations to minimize the effect of the distortion, which plagues every inch of the recording, have resulted in a very thin window to the world...and it is still plagued with distortion.

But I want to share it!

It doesn't really ring any bells of specificity as to what it might portray - such a thought nearly always comes long after the music has formed. I am fascinated by volatile processes which seem to have been present for eternity whether we perceive them or not...impossible things to every even discover a glimpse of in all of humanity, though their maker is aware of there function and existence. As a type, I consider what we can get a glimpse of...something like the great red spot on Jupiter, an eternal storm.



So to bring the recording conditions into it...say this was the first technology able to look inside the storm, to give some feel to the reality of a volatile event continuing to menace and swirl through hundreds of years of history unbeknownst to what is conscious in creation. It can only be a glimpse, a reading, a thin, colorless picture. But let it grow in your mind. Let it be a seed to what's really happening.

I hope you can enjoy this piece. 

[pianowolfi]

Help. Mercy. Stop this red running spinning storm, I get dizzy!!!
Oh I see, I'm on Jupiter, ah how did I get here? Is there devil's staircase anywhere? That would be a bit more calm at least. Or Sacre du printemps? WAAAAAHHHH  

Cool stuff, unleash the fury  

[chopinatic]

wow! congratulations on unleashing that monster of energy and anger! It was a non stop ride. Great stuff !!

[lostinidlewonder]

I feel like I get swept up by some giant storm and thrown up and down tumbling all about. When things get loud its like the giant red spot swirling around comes close, other parts its like unearthly atmosphere dancing through the alien wind. Quiet parts its like we get thrown up above the planet and orbit around it sometimes slowly fall back from its gravity and back into the turbulence. 15:45 for some strange reason I got an image of a camera up on a satellite taking photos (repeated notes are the photos being taken) of Jupiters glory, then its almost like the planet calling back to us. Near the end its like we are drifting away calmly from the gravitational pull of the planet, only to crash into one of its moons (last sudden chord)! doh!

Re-sampled with less noise.

[pianowolfi]

Re-sampled with less noise.

How do you do this?

[lostinidlewonder]

I use Sony Sound Forge Pro. Oh and I forgot to say, this recording of furtwaengler is so cool I love anything to do with space, stars astronomy etc, and this recording took me to some of the fury that we find in planets other than ours.

[furtwaengler]

Thanks for the nice comments, Wolfi, Chopinatic, and Lostinidlewonder. Very interesting. And Lost, I'm am astonished at how much better you made the recording sound, even as it had been effected be things I was trying to do with Audacity as well as the compression of mp3. It now even sounds "red." Thanks for taking the time to do that. I looked at Sony Sound Forge Pro and cried when I saw the price!