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A Sudden Chat with Paul Lewis about Beethoven & Schubert

Substituting for the suddenly indisposed Janine Jensen, pianist Paul Lewis shares his ideas on his global Schubert project, classical repertoire focus and views on titans Beethoven vs. Schubert. Read more

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pankrpec

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Minimalism

on: October 12, 2012, 02:03:47 PM

I don't know what to write. I have started about 6 times already and deleted all of it every time. But I still want to share this improv, so here it is.

Flutter is a bonus track.

Minimalism.mp3 (5214.29 kB - downloaded 104 times.)

Flutter.mp3 (2974.49 kB - downloaded 84 times.)

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Derek

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Re: Minimalism

Reply #1 on: October 12, 2012, 02:16:39 PM

I enjoyed both pieces. In the first one, I got the feeling that after a couple of minutes that you had "warmed up" and your brain no longer wanted to remain in the two simple figures you started out with. I think this may be a fairly common experience amongst all improvisers---there's an initial period of simplicity and warm up, and then something in the brain changes and a flow begins to occur. So--I think you should affirm that is happening and keep doing it and delve further into the style you're exploring there.

The second track reminded me of a lot of passages by Jarrett, he loves to indulge in this sort of figuration---slowly moving and changing temolo octaves and other such things just creating a wall of piano sound.