Rumble in the Jungle

[furtwaengler]

Date: February 23, 2011

Not like Cashis Clay. A real rumble in a real jungle. Maybe a deathly chase, or my own personal "Monsty." (A long with a specific two others I've shared in the past.) Sometimes. You've. Just. Got. To. Unleash.

[m1469]

haha ... YAY!  

Well, I'm listening to this right now.  I feel a little guilty, for some reason, that this calls to me ... I can't help it.  I have loads of melodious things going on inside of me very often (maybe always), and this kind of Classical form and sense, and then I absolutely love counterpoint and sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with entire portions of it having been composed in my subconscious in my sleep, too, but there is a very real element of what you played here in which it kind of describes how I feel inside.  So, of course, it makes me want to go to the piano and let it all out .  But, I'm back at that point in time where I feel like I shouldn't since I've got a few hanging around already.  All the same, it's still in there!

Anyway, I'm sorry to type about myself because what it really means is that I connect with what you did!  And, I appreciate you posting .

[furtwaengler]

Yeah, I let something like this out every so often, but recording them has gotten a little redundant. I did everything I could in the middle section and ferocious return to "An indeterminate combustible thing." Everything else seems tame. What interests me (not particularly in this one, but in others, and also a similar occurrence in yours, m1469) is the contrasting peaceful moments these type of storms on the piano can birth.

[m1469]

Yes!  There is something that fascinates me, especially currently, about the starkish differences plus the fact that I love this sense of a huge wall of sound either in memory behind a stark difference, or in the transition creating this huge kind of colorful tapestry behind an idea.  When I first picked up Chopin's etude, Op. 25 no. 10, there are elements of it that struck me very similarly, and yesterday I found myself suddenly feeling it, thinking of it, and wanting to improvise to it in a whole new way.  But, that etude is to me some kind of this classic story of "Beauty and the Beast" ... if you see what I mean.  I don't know for sure if this would've inspired something like my last "Monsty's" with those starkish differences, or what, but for some reason I can't help talking about it right now.

I thought about those more melodic sections a bit in my last Monsty's, and trying to "compose" something that started with those, but it's just not the same for me ... or, the purpose or meaning of it is just not altogether clear for me right now.

Anyway, I hope you realize that I do have a particular liking to your style of improvisation and playing in general, and that I certainly didn't mean any kind of putting down what you have posted here.  It's just that I feel compelled to let Monsty out, and I fight it a bit.  What I do find is that it continues to clarify itself, though, and I think there's something to that.  Even though it feels like immense crashing around, I think there is a clear idea waiting to be found, but I get scared of boring the bejeebers out of people by posting it.  I suppose nobody has to listen, of course .

In any event, hope you are well .