Melancholy improvisation

[ronde_des_sylphes]

This from Liszt Pensees des morts, some of his more spiritual works type territory, perhaps. Not my usual, anyway, and on a slightly larger scale than I tend to opt for.

[ted]

If I improvised this sort of stuff, and I probably could if I tried hard enough, I would end up sounding like a child fiddling with pieces in Palings albums. You do not. The magic of your playing is that it allows me to bypass my upbringing in twentieth century reason and see into the visionary philosophical and mystical premises of an earlier age without bias, thereby expanding my piano language.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

This is slightly atypical for me, and I'm quite fond of the result! Less fond of the drift in the treble, as I've not had the chance to get a tuner in. There is a lot of going with the flow in this, but at the same time I've tried to use cellular motifs to keep a level of structural integrity/coherence, whilst using key signatures as architectural deliniators. It's probably an attempt at composition in realtime.

[ted]

It’s funny how different pianos lose tuning in different ways, perhaps depending on the tuner’s technique too. Having a Woolworths ear is something of an asset for me in this regard. Curiously, I still find the bass of your piano peculiar rather than its treble but I think the effect is probably produced by your recording setup.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

The treble has reached crisis point in the last week, for me at least! I've ordered a tuning device and hope I can at least correct it cosmetically. I agree that the bass is woolly; I've been experimenting with reverb recently to try to compensate (the Goblins improvisation in the other thread has reverb), but I think the small size of the room containing the piano has a lot to do with the low frequencies coming across less than ideally. I wasn't too impressed with the consequences of trying to boost the bass with EQ.