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Post by gx on Sept 18, 2019 3:07:13 GMT
This is a short piece- just over 2 minutes. I was able to take a diversion from my ongoing project, and reworked an earlier impression of a piece. It is moody, with a few agitated bits. I'd be interested in hearing your impression(s) if you care to listen. Thanks! soundcloud.com/progstudiespiano/hope-springs-f9-new
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Post by driscollmusick on Sept 19, 2019 14:18:10 GMT
This is a short piece- just over 2 minutes. I was able to take a diversion from my ongoing project, and reworked an earlier impression of a piece. It is moody, with a few agitated bits. I'd be interested in hearing your impression(s) if you care to listen. Thanks! soundcloud.com/progstudiespiano/hope-springs-f9-new"Hope springs..." he muttered under his breath as he filled the coffee cup full of bourbon... I like it, dreamy, jazzy, lovely melody, but the title is ironic, no?
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Post by gx on Sept 19, 2019 16:58:12 GMT
Hahaha.. John, I had that title in mind when I started writing, and didn't give it a second thought.. but you are correct... it seems that the piece practically dashes all hope... I guess the qualifier is 'practically'.. But yes, it doesn't really fit, (and i wouldn't use irony with this type of expression). I'll have to think of another title. Thanks for mentioning this - I surely would have missed it.
Thanks for listening. I'm glad you liked it!
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Post by Dave Dexter on Sept 21, 2019 17:08:12 GMT
"Hope springs..." he muttered under his breath, as he let the falling snow fill the windshield and took his hands from the wheel.
The more sparing, quiet passages were my favourites. 0.48, say. Remember this is battling with the fact I don't really like how most pianos sound. It's a sea of wonderfully drear dissonances and just enough melodic consonance to keep me going; I couldn't write it.
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Post by gx on Sept 21, 2019 21:55:39 GMT
'took his hands from the wheel' ? yikes!
Thanks for venturing through, despite your misgivings of 'piano sound'. I really appreciate, " wonderfully drear dissonances and just enough melodic consonance to keep me going". You certainly got the drift of the melodic thread. (Perhaps the quieter passages wouldn't have been as effective w/o the contrasting dark splashes.. ) Thanks for offering you thoughts, Dave.
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Post by Dave Dexter on Sept 22, 2019 1:17:27 GMT
I agree completely, my favourite moments from works are often a small percentage of the whole but if you take away the rest, it collapses. For completeness, this is one of my favourite recorded piano sounds. I feel that it's far more room mic than close, which removes the brittle treble that a lot of piano puts out to me. (Edit - on closer listen I can hear some compression artifacts and noise that aren't on my CD copy, but it'll do) Would that work for your music? I don't know. Just saying that, like guitar tones, piano is for some reason far more picky for me than almost any other instrument in terms of recorded timbre. I imagine it's not an easy thing to record or reproduce. So don't take it personal
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Post by gx on Sept 22, 2019 2:26:52 GMT
Yes, I hear what your are saying.. I got used to rendering all the piano pieces 'dry' - for didactic purposes for students... This piece, not being one of them, I should of taken out some of that brittle high end w some reverb.. (I was also thinking that I'd Eventually really play it, and give more attention to it's 'sound'. ) Thanks for the tip Dave. Also, I enjoyed the 'Dragon' excerpt.
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Post by Mike Hewer on Sept 24, 2019 13:16:20 GMT
A nice utterance Greg, moodily reflective and not a little melancholic. Jazzy in pianism and I like the contrasts between simple almost 2 part work going into more impassioned Scriabinesque colour - very effective in stirring the pieces emotional arc. It sounds partially improvised, was it.
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Post by gx on Sept 27, 2019 16:34:37 GMT
Thanks, Mike! That emotion arc is a big part of my thinking. (of course!) It wasn't improvised, but I wanted it to come off that way... so, great! Thanks for listening!
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