Sa Tuna -- Improv

[pianowolfi]

Derek wrote:

hi pianowolfi, I really enjoyed this. It sounds like you do some hand crossing in it? Like maybe playing that rising figure in the left and then using your right hand above and below? I love doing stuff like that, and having a conversation between the high and the low. Very cool. I'd enjoy hearing some newer stuff like this too!

So this might be a bit similar to what you describe. It's a sort of prelude. Sa Tuna is the name of a little bay at the Mediterranean Sea. It's very nostalgic. It's from April 22nd, 2008

[m1469]

Hi Wolfi,

Thanks for posting this.  It was improvised a day before my birthday .  I like the drama of it, but hopefully it was good drama for you, and not bad drama, being that it is nostalgic for you.  I guess sometime I will want to be at the little Mediterranean Sea bay, named Sa Tuna.

[pianowolfi]

Sometimes I like to think of dramas as an encounter of several different strings of inspiration




(this is not my picture, I have no personal pictures from this place)

[m1469]

Sometimes I like to think of dramas as an encounter of several different strings of inspiration

That is an interesting thought!  Thanks for sharing that .

Sa Tuna is smaller than I imagined in my head, and now I want to listen again to your improvisation, and it's much more intimate than I had imagined, too!  It is simply gorgeous .  Is the water cold?  People look like they are not exactly sun-bathing!  But, generally, I think I could sit over there on those rocks below the trees and spend hours upon hours just being there, sitting and thinking and taking it in.  If the water were warm, I would become invisible as I'd spend absolutely all day in there with little breaks to eat, and let my skin de-wrinkle a bit.  The water looks lovely!  I bet there aren't that many fishies, though, since it's not warm, I guess.  That's okay though, I'd still snorkel all around and just explore and explore under the water ... and listen and listen and listen ...

[pianowolfi]

That is an interesting thought!  Thanks for sharing that .

Sa Tuna is smaller than I imagined in my head, and now I want to listen again to your improvisation, and it's much more intimate than I had imagined, too!  It is simply gorgeous .  Is the water cold?  People look like they are not exactly sun-bathing!  But, generally, I think I could sit over there on those rocks below the trees and spend hours upon hours just being there, sitting and thinking and taking it in.  If the water were warm, I would become invisible as I'd spend absolutely all day in there with little breaks to eat, and let my skin de-wrinkle a bit.  The water looks lovely!  I bet there aren't that many fishies, though, since it's not warm, I guess.  That's okay though, I'd still snorkel all around and just explore and explore under the water ... and listen and listen and listen ...

Oh the water is really warm in the summer! It's at the Costa Brava And I think yes you could do everything you describe there And there are fishies and fishermen too, I think it's a stony beach though, you might want to wear sandals.
Oh and one more remark: I think I react quite sensitively on names and "Sa Tuna" sounded so musical to me, and a bit mysterious too, so I think that's a part of why I felt inspired to play this.

[m1469]

Oh the water is really warm in the summer! It's at the Costa Brava And I think yes you could do everything you describe there

ohhhhhh ... I'll just pretend I'm there, I guess .  Of course, it's not the same as actually being there.

And there are fishies and fishermen too, I think it's a stony beach though, you might want to wear sandals.

Once, when I was snorkeling in a tropical place, suddenly I was in a huge school of little fishies and they just were flashing all around.  That was fun!  I'll wear sandals, even in my imagination (and, in my imagination, they're really pretty sandals, too, and I'll wear a toe ring).

Oh and one more remark: I think I react quite sensitively on names and "Sa Tuna" sounded so musical to me, and a bit mysterious too, so I think that's a part of why I felt inspired to play this.

Hmmm, I like that.  Sa Tuna ... as musical-ness.  It's nice to learn more on how people work .

[pianowolfi]

ohhhhhh ... I'll just pretend I'm there, I guess .  Of course, it's not the same as actually being there.

Once, when I was snorkeling in a tropical place, suddenly I was in a huge school of little fishies and they just were flashing all around.  That was fun!  I'll wear sandals, even in my imagination (and, in my imagination, they're really pretty sandals, too, and I'll wear a toe ring).

Hmmm, I like that.  Sa Tuna ... as musical-ness.  It's nice to learn more on how people work .

This feels like a dialogue that could go on, improvising like music, flowing like water
I remember a similar fishie-snorkeling experience in Mediterranien Sea, in Slovenia
Toe ring makes me smile

This music was to me like the remembrance of the little tiny breakers, then one of a farewell, and then like seagulls flying over that little bay and sometimes when I listen I think well there could be  something like a ring or a little jewel, put into a paper ship and sent on the sea...in the dusk...

But of course these things are never like a program to me, it just comes together all of a sudden, in the moment of playing, when I know I just have to play this, now

[Derek]

Hi pianowolfi, this is lovely! Thanks for finding it! It seems you don't often show "this side" of your playing, i.e. the lighthearted and nostalgic melodic side?

[pianowolfi]

Hi pianowolfi, this is lovely! Thanks for finding it! It seems you don't often show "this side" of your playing, i.e. the lighthearted and nostalgic melodic side?

Thank you Derek
I'm afraid you'll find almost no music of me without at least a glimpse of abyss to it.
The sky weren't blue without the black space behind it...

[littletune]

Really great Wolfi!!  I'm not sure if I'm just imagining but it seems to me like the music really sounds exactly like the name and the picture looks exactly like the music  I would like to be there too!! But just listening to the improvisation is like being there anyway  Or maybe even better  (cause I haven't really been there so I can't know for sure  ). Wolfi you were snorkeling in Slovenia?! 
Oh listening to this is kinda like getting splashed by the waves  Except that here your ears get splashed by the music waves  And it even sounds a little salty sometimes!  And sometimes it's like as if a storm is coming and sometimes it's really calm. It's REALLY cool! 

[pianowolfi]

Hi Littletune, thank you very much for listening and for your descriptive comments, it's amazing how music can evoke all kind of virtual sensations
I have been snorkeling in Piran, back then, I think it was in 1998 It's a very beautiful place too

[littletune]

Hmm 1998! That year seems kinda familiar!  I wonder why...      
We have been in Piran a lot of times too  But not in 1998... but in 1999 we have been in Bernardin which is a little out of Piran (between Piran and Portorož). And that was my very first vacation when I was about 10 or 11 months old  and everyone thought I was a boy because I almost didn't have any hair at all! 
Oh Wolfi do you remember the picture I posted for your birthday?

(except this one is not scanned so the colors are a little different)
That is actually supposed to be Piran (as seen from the sea) 

And yes I think it's really cool to see so many different things while listening to music... and the more I listen to music more I'm seeing pictures in my head while listening

[pianowolfi]

Yes I remember that wonderful picture! I just didn't know it's Piran but now I see it, of course! I also attended a concert of violinists there. They were playing Sarasate and Paganini, and they were all students of a music academy or so, we even went to see where that music academy is and we found it. They were playing on the street, in front of a little café! And they had really managed to get a piano out there! It was really wonderful!

So basically I have been there in the year you were born...lol..I didn't even think of that yet...

Anyway, I have also been to Slovenia in 1997 already. Some of the staff people on the campsites even recognized me a year later! For instance in Postojna (I am very interested in caves)