A walk in a sunshiny shower

[ted]

The piano has had a copious thrashing over the past couple of months and during lockdown.

[quantum]

It's like being bathed in sunlight, and suddenly having a creative moment where this groove pops in your head and just keeps going.  Wondering if this is how ideas came to Beethoven on his walks. 

I really like the ideas that this piece led to.   

[ted]

Thanks for listening Neil. I had been recording for an hour before picking my wife up from somewhere. I arrived early and walked around a few blocks and while I was walking a light rain commenced. So in this case the title, as often occurs with me, was applied after the event. There is definitely something about walking which is peculiarly conducive to musical thought and speculation, but I do not have the ability to conceive auditory hallucinations at will as several composers apparently did. My teacher claimed he actually heard music, as opposed to imagining it, but that experience eludes me other than in occasional dreaming.