Fluid disjunction

[quantum]

I was seeking to explore semi-random pattern development in the LH with tune in the RH.  

Mics: Studio Projects B1
Interface: Edirol UA-25

[ted]

There is indeed something peculiarly exciting about rapid, detached left hand finger work. Of course legato groups are much easier but then you change the nature of the internal rhythms. The task is lightened and rhythmic impetus is paradoxically enhanced if microsleeps, basically tiny rests, occur in the stream of finger work. I have always thought it strange that practically all of classical virtuosity places such heavy importance on achieving smooth continuity in such figures. It is certainly the more difficult option physically but it is also far less interesting musically. We are all fed this myth, in orthodox piano playing, that glassy smoothness possesses intrinsic merit simply because of that property.

My own view on pattern is that either extreme of strict periodicity or randomness is equally unexciting. I personally find "almost periodic" figurations of any type, any idiomatic style, very exciting and productive of musical DNA of each succeeding cell in an improvisation. It is more or less what I have been working on for the last five years.

Please continue to post your explorations.

[Derek]

quantum! you're back!  There's something in the left hand figurations which remind me (on the surface) of a frenetic part in Jarrett's Vienna concert. Having a slow melody on top of that style is an interesting twist to that kind of feeling.

[pianoplayjl]

the bass sounds like the music you would hear in movies, particularly action and thriller. Music sounds interesting and scary.

[dan_pincus]

Quantum,

Really.........Really...........nice. I especially liked the parts when your left hand was around midrange of the piano because I could better hear the left hand ideas. Although, I also liked when the left hand was in the "bassier" part of the piano as it created a blur, if you will, of the harmony that the rapid left handed linear line was producing. I really enjoyed the energy that brought the piece towards closure at the end, and then ending on the one final little note in the bass. Cool....