Vexialogue

[quantum]

How do we get there?

[furtwaengler]

I cannot comment on how we got here, but I will say I consider it a great gift anytime I get to hear your mighty improvisational gifts, no matter the subject, name, instrument or co-llaborators. Do you ever put pen to paper and compose?  I think if I give a recital at the work, it would be easy and tempting to dream in the structure of that recital, "And now an improvisation by Quantum!" Or what are some other things we actually could do. An improvisational E-rectial by the folks on this board?  Hmm..

[pankrpec]

I also don't know how do we get there, but if this kind of music will be heard while we are trying, it will be a pleasant journey.

Furtwaengler, I had to re-read the end of your post two times, but I'm still not sure, are you trying to make a dirty joke? (Just kidding)

[zezhyrule]

Wonderful!

[ted]

A delicious piece of impressionism whose subject appears to be a Joycean compound with a nod to Satie ! Irritable flags ? Vexatious dialogue ? Conversation with flags ? Antagonistic dialogue with flags ? Excellent idea, and endorsing my own view that musical communication is an illusion, with the receiving mind placing whatever meaning it likes on abstract sound. I have noticed much more organic form in your playing recently, quantum. In this case, the whole thing is balanced through the insistent sections of Debussy-like chordal phrases, offset  by the more intense patches. How I like that little “plop” at 6:07 ! “And the duppy shot the shutter clup” -Finnegans Wake, p.23. That sort of phrasal detail can make an improvisation for me. Don't worry, everyone here knows I am as mad as a hatter. But that's what is so fine about improvisation. We can all be completely and harmlessly mad.