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Offline tufro

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my newest improv, I'd love for any feedback
on: December 10, 2013, 09:42:24 PM
Found here: https://soundcloud.com/tufro/music-box

Let me know what you think, feedback is great. I'm getting better slowly but surely. Still can't do anything much faster than this, convincingly

Offline johnyprestige

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Re: my newest improv, I'd love for any feedback
Reply #1 on: December 11, 2013, 05:09:08 PM
Some beautiful chords throughout this piece. I really enjoyed the dissonant harmonies and unusual chords. Some weird and wonderful feelings in this!

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Re: my newest improv, I'd love for any feedback
Reply #2 on: January 04, 2014, 05:07:42 AM
I like this.  It has a sort of fairy tale quality about it.  The unusual harmonies flow effortlessly from one to another. 
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Re: my newest improv, I'd love for any feedback
Reply #3 on: January 09, 2014, 09:53:27 AM
Yes, I like it too, but when it comes to saying why I am rather inept. There is a very strong undercurrent, a coherence of phrasing and psychic impression despite its simplicity, or perhaps because of it. It has some features I go for in my own playing: non-notatable rhythm and almost periodic cells. Maybe it's just that. It stimulated me to listen to your other playing, which I am doing now.
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Re: my newest improv, I'd love for any feedback
Reply #4 on: January 09, 2014, 10:15:18 AM
As I suspected, all your pieces have this disturbing quality of meditative foreboding - "Anxiety" is a good one. I agree with the others about the effective harmony, but that isn't all there is to it. I like using those chords too, but I do not produce this peculiar effect. So it has to be a syncretic property resulting from several things - always a good sign in an improviser. I think you would be well advised to take your improvisation more seriously and pursue your own voice, as it is quite unlike anything else I have heard.
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