"Devil's Thrill Prelude"

[utterlysneaky]

2007-Yamaha Clavinova CLP-280
Home recording with M-audio external soundcard and some processing with Audacity. Tell me what ya think!

[utterlysneaky]

oops forgot to attach the damn thing...

[utterlysneaky]

feel free to call this ugly, grotesque whatever springs to mind. I always laugh when I hear this..I guess I might just aswell have called it something like "temporary insanity" haha

[pankrpec]

That beginning was pretty annoying but I listened further and am glad I did. It is quite nice.

[m1469]

hmmm ... actually, I like this quite a bit!  And, I thought the beginning was actually captivating.  Something interesting is that I could still hear your musical thinking even in the silences  .

*soon goes to improvise a baby piece*

[pianowolfi]

Very good! Haha I kept waiting for the devil's trill and then I saw it's "Thrill"
I like things like this that play with silence, contrasts in dynamics and movement, and expose the characteristics of particular intervals.

[littletune]

Yes I first thought it was a "trill" too  That beginning is like someone walking somewhere REALLY carefully and looking around so they wouldn't get noticed or caught... and then they jump through a window and they're in a nice and safe place sometimes they stll get worried about something and some sounds scare them... but then they feel nice and safe again  

[utterlysneaky]

I was more thinking along the lines of a murderous devil armed with a dagger stabbing someone in their sleep. But hey that's just me muhaha

[littletune]

Yes well... no I don't have thoughts like that!   
Even though we have some very mean neighbours around here... but noooo I couldn't imagine that about them either!!
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But I guess that's kinda like a story with two different endings... you imagine that the evel wins and gets someone and kills them... and I imagine that a good person gets away from the evel one and escapes and is saved!!

[overfjell]

I loved it, and also, the lower range in your clavinova is absolutely gorgeous, my E-piano sounds awful.

[lontano]

2007-Yamaha Clavinova CLP-280
Home recording with M-audio external soundcard and some processing with Audacity. Tell me what ya think!

I like it! I would have gladly hung around for more exploration, like incorporating the opening motif with the later material etc. Back in the day when I was recording my improves I always used a decent Steinway, Baldwin or Yamaha grand (all that and more at the school I worked), and thus had opportunity to use the middle pedal with full keyboard range of independent key suspension. This opens up a lot of improvisational possibilities. I'm curious if your Yamaha Clavinova (with or without the extras) has the capacity to emulate the sostenuoto of a proper grand piano, and do you ever experiment with it?

I'm attaching an improv I recorded (on a Steinway I believe) in 1992. If you can tolerate the style of my music making you will hear some of what I was doing, the technique becoming more obvious from roughly the middle and onward. 

Lontano