The Schoolwork Assignment

[quantum]

It's been a while since I shared some improvisations, so here is a recent recording.

This falls along similar lines as previous "school" themed pieces. 

[ted]

The overall psychic implication is clearly achieved in the three sections. The first is suggestive of desperation and anxiety, intensified by the repeated notes. Then we have quiet, resolute contemplation, resolving finally into happy triumph. Admittedly, had you not supplied the title I would probably not have imposed the setting of a school assignment as the specific model, as the emotional scheme would admit of many mappings onto reality. In that sense, I suppose impressionism is as limiting as it is liberating.

I cannot comment on the techniques used, as I play only piano music, but I seem to detect an improvement in your use of syncopation, it now being intrinsic to phrase generation, rather than an embellishment of unsyncopated material. A lot of players do not understand this important distinction, which is what distinguishes really good swing and ragtime pianists. There is also some attractive contrapuntal work going on in the last section. All in all, quite a treat.

[furtwaengler]

I've enjoyed listening to this several times now. Thanks for continuing to share your music.