Prelude - 2.2.08 (Improv)

[m1469]

I stumbled upon this today, though it was from the date I posted in the title (which was the title on the file on my computer).  I had recently put this file onto a CD, actually, thinking it was a different prelude of mine, and I was very surprised when I heard it today.  I had hardly any recollection of having improvised it, and it was interesting for me to listen all the way through from that perspective of unfamiliarity regarding one of my own works.  I guess I'm finding it interesting enough to post here right now.  

I will admit that, lately, I'm surprised to find that I am better understanding the train of thought and structure of my improvisations from years back, this one included.  I can actually hear a thread throughout, and I didn't used to know I was threading stuff together.  Since this improvisation is from awhile ago, I searched the sticky thread to try to see if I had ever posted this before, and I don't believe I have.  I apologize if somehow it is indeed a repeat!  But, lately I've been really excited by improvisation, actually, and realizing more of what it means to me.   Well, I won't go on and on.  I do feel though that there are quite a number of improvs which I've posted over the years here, that I could actually truly turn into compositions, and I am pleased at this fact.

I hope you are having, have had, or will have, a beautiful day .  

[goldentone]

No, this is a new one.  It's very nice.  I hear echoes of "And, Oh. . ."

I do feel though that there are quite a number of improvs which I've posted over the years here, that I could actually truly turn into compositions, and I am pleased at this fact.

Well, there are some, like the one I cited above, that don't need to be edited into compositions.  They are already perfect.

[m1469]

I hear echoes of "And, Oh. . ."

I've listened to a few from years past, partly as I looked in the sticky to see if I had posted this one before.  I think I'm noticing that there are some "eras" in my improvs and I could hear ideas that were perhaps common at certain times in my life.  If nothing else, I am just happy to be hearing things with more perspective.  While I grew up improvising, it seems that some of the years while I was here and wasn't in private Classical lessons were somewhat full of improvisation for me, and I am actually feeling extremely grateful that there was some "documentation" of this - there is at least some kind of something in the world which represents piano as having been in my life, and if there is something that I have to "give" regarding that, I think I've at least branched a little into giving it, and I need to know that right now.  There were hoards of files, hundreds, that I deleted from my Edirol without listening.  I was overwhelmed by the quantities and never remembered feeling that there was anything of value on those.  I may have been right regarding that, I may have been wrong.  Maybe more wrong than right  .  But, even though this one that I've posted here is not a "gem" per se, I can hear ideas within it and it gives me some kind of working perspective, and helps me realize that I can record improvisations and be better about filing those sessions even if not profound, and that there may be something there to work with later.  I've done that a bit with poetry, and I'm happy to develop this sense about it.

Well, there are some, like the one I cited above, that don't need to be edited into compositions.  They are already perfect.

Thank you .  I am hoping to truly get some pieces written out (maybe in the Spring?), but at least they exist already. .

[furtwaengler]

I have noticed the same thing with myself regarding eras in improvisation, and even that in someways I've never managed to get passed the year 2008 as a peak of musical creativity. Individual dates become very important. But what influences these things? In some ways I hear a "m1469 voice" in everything you've done in the same way Danielpour always sounds like Danielpour, or Birtwistle, and even better example because of the diversity of his oeuvre. One think unique in your world is the element of newness and space, as if you are walking into a white room with nothing in it and breathing through the space while furnishing it. I don't know if that will even make a bit of sense...

Hearing this prelude, I think there is only one you among billions of people, and that one you can be heard in a single chord you strike. 

[m1469]

One think unique in your world is the element of newness and space, as if you are walking into a white room with nothing in it and breathing through the space while furnishing it. I don't know if that will even make a bit of sense...

Yes, I think I get it actually.  If nothing else, it gives me a sense of freedom about being able to choose how I decide to furnish my imagination.

Hearing this prelude, I think there is only one you among billions of people, and that one you can be heard in a single chord you strike.

Thank you, Dave. 

[Derek]

This is an intense and melodic piece. I wish I had more interesting right brained things to say, haha. But, it had some feelings in it that I've gotten from some Grieg piano pieces, interestingly. Not the same style---but something about the sentiment felt Griegy to me.

[m1469]

Ahhhhhh!!!!!!  I somehow feel like know *exactly* what you mean and this helps me a lot, thank you!!!