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Topic: Flowers of Spring -- a long free-form improvisation  (Read 738 times)

Offline ranjit

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I tried to do a long free-form improvisation à la Ted to see where it goes. It somehow manages to sound uplifting despite all of the chromaticism and general 'weirdness'.

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Re: Flowers of Spring -- a long free-form improvisation
Reply #1 on: June 04, 2021, 05:20:46 AM
I liked a number of the transitions between ideas, and how one flowed naturally into the next.  25:08 was great how the arpeggios dissolved into a trill with lines below and above.

Improvisation can take us places we did not consider before starting to play.  You seemed to have an awareness of where the music wanted to go, as it has an overall flow to it.  Were you aiming for a particular length of music before you started to play?
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Re: Flowers of Spring -- a long free-form improvisation
Reply #2 on: June 04, 2021, 09:18:03 AM
I liked a number of the transitions between ideas, and how one flowed naturally into the next.  25:08 was great how the arpeggios dissolved into a trill with lines below and above.
Thanks so much for listening, quantum! I listened back to that portion, and it turned out a bit better than I had expected.

Improvisation can take us places we did not consider before starting to play.  You seemed to have an awareness of where the music wanted to go, as it has an overall flow to it.  Were you aiming for a particular length of music before you started to play?
I find this very interesting. As a matter of fact, no, I was trying to be as "hands-off" with my approach as possible in this case. I just sat down at the piano with an aim to noodle, to let the music flow and to let my subconscious do its thing, and didn't set any parameters whatsoever in terms of duration or harmonic content. I didn't even sit down with the intent to make an improvisation as such -- I was just tired of practicing pieces all of the time, and wanted some true spontaneity back. There was little conscious thought involved.
 

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