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Online ted

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Section of improvisation from last year
on: May 19, 2005, 10:11:12 AM
I seem to be going the opposite way to most people. I started off very structured when young but as I get through middle-age my playing is getting wilder and madder. This is on my old piano and recorded on too high a volume, but it will have to do until I get the hang of my new piano and make something better.
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Re: Section of improvisation from last year
Reply #1 on: May 19, 2005, 01:51:03 PM
loved it. definately 'wild and mad', but i'd still say it has structure. i guess you might call it a more "naturally evolving" structure - which i think is something that's inevitable when you've been playing from intuition over a long period of time.
there weren't any sections which struck me as sounding out of place while i was listening to it.
would you say your playing is just less structured on a micro - rather than macro - level?

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Re: Section of improvisation from last year
Reply #2 on: May 19, 2005, 09:06:40 PM
Organic, rather than architectural form is exactly what I feel to be appropriate for my musical purpose. This was not the case until a few years ago. Your response reassures me that this is, after all, discernible by the listener,and that my retarded adolescence may be a postive musical force. Thanks for listening.
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Re: Section of improvisation from last year
Reply #3 on: May 20, 2005, 05:27:17 AM
uhhmmm, Ted?  That was completely spellbinding.  Thank you  :)

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Re: Section of improvisation from last year
Reply #4 on: May 26, 2005, 01:56:05 PM
Yes I agree, you are on to something here Ted! kinda has a "futuristic baroque" feel, if that can possibly make any sense :) 

maybe one of these days I'll get up the nerve to post one of my free improvisations.
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