Earth speaks

[quantum]

An Earth hour 2012 meditation.  Recorded in complete darkness with the H4n. 

[chopinatic]

A dark piece recorded in darkness! really powerful stuff, I love your style, how i wish i could improvise like this sometimes! excellent

[quantum]

Thanks for listening chopinatic.  I believe you do have it in you, having listening to your recent post.  Sometimes those doubts we have about our playing can be turned into fruitful musical adventures. 

[pianowolfi]

Thanks for listening chopinatic.  I believe you do have it in you, having listening to your recent post.  Sometimes those doubts we have about our playing can be turned into fruitful musical adventures.  

Very Wise Words! VWW!

And a very wise improv! A lot in this is about rhythm, perhaps you caught some of our mother earth's rhythms? I think you really did!! In my mind some parts of it connect in some way to m1469's legendary, incredible, wonderful "Stampede" improv, which explores intensely the deep volcanic layers of the earth!!  

All the planets and their inner layers are (in my perception) in some (poly-)rhythmic and proportional interaction with each other. We just need to listen to them! We are happy, as musicians. We don't have to "prove" anything, we can "just" (well, of course this 'just' is actually not that easy, it's rather existential!) *listen* to the rhythm, and sound, and harmony/disharmony of the cosmos, and play it!

Fascinating!

[Derek]

I enjoyed this a lot. There was a particularly striking change somewhere in the first couple of minutes where you created a stark contrast between some harsh chords and went straight into an open 9th (two fifths on top of each other, I guess that's an example of some sort of quartal inversion, if that's the way you were thinking about it at the time).