I was listening to Alain's latest, amazing song "Inside The Insight" here: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=13199

...and I felt inspired to lay down a track on the living room piano. This sounds nothing whatsoever like Alain but it inspired me to express and not worry about where it was going or where it was supposed to end. I actually did a Stick tune as well, "Pontificating Blue," but it still needs some work. I'll share that one later.

Here was a "hit record and let 'er rip" piano wankfest and I had no preconceived melody or rhythm. No attempt to use a metronome either, so apologies for the freetime improv, although it's mostly 4/4. And A minor. Probably 3 different themes to be developed later--or not.



"Assemblage of Dawn Creatures"
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Cheers!

Loved it. Very emotional and symphonic. Lots of passion in this one.

I agree...

Very nice Stephen. I don't know if it's the same for you but...more I play piano, more I improve on the Stick...and vice versa...

When I listen to Greg (he was a piano player), I can ear the piano player inside of him. In fact, I'd like to ear Greg on piano...lol.

Good job Stephen.

I enjoyed listening to this piece just now, what a great morning track. I generally have KUSC on in the car, so it felt like my morning commute.

Dang, you were just making that up? Good job. We can always count on you for a telling song title too.

I'm in Kansas for the weekend attending a Sink family reunion, and I wasn't able to check back in until now. Thanks Rob, Alain, and Gene!

Thanks for listening and for the kind words, everyone! I always wish I would have hit record on the camera when I do these things, because I can't even fake these things a second time. I guess it's the good and the bad parts about pulling stuff out of nowhere. I always think "I'll just make a quick jam here" and then listen back to it and go "Damn, I should have video taped that."

But I did get it recorded on the MIDI recorder, and thus, I can always pull out chunks of it to use later, and also change the instrumentation. I could go in and block this thing out on all the beats and sync it up to a click track--but that seems like a lot of work for an improv piece. But it would let me put out some easy sheet music for this, not that I have a lot of use for sheet music.

Thanks guys!

I'm ALL ABOAAAAAARD on the Alain train of thought. Just be musical. I've recently worked through some hang ups I had with my rig and I'm looking forward to more Alaining it. 

Love both songs. Different but both of them stretching to the same emotional landscapes... thanks gents this is what music is all about!


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Thanks, Rodrigo and Gene! "Just be musical!" Words to live by, in my humble opinion. (That, and a good side job to pay the bills!)

Speaking of, here in the Detroit airport terminal of DTW, they have a huge player piano now in two different sections of the terminal. And there's a live piano player there about half the time, and the piano plays itself the other half. Of course I looked at the guy's fingers to see if he was just pretending to play, and he was really awesome. He was taking pop hits and both jazzifying them and also Muzaking them, but in a very complicated harmonic way. My family had to yell at me to go get luggage because I kept watching him.

But seeing him also reminded me that I probably wouldn't want his job, and I don't have the ear or the chops to be a human radio. I've played for weddings before as background music before the ceremony, as everyone nervously fills the church. But I could probably do stuff like this improv tune all day--but I'd rather stop after say 45 minutes or so, and not a 4-hour shift or whatever.

Anyway, here is the video that I created to go along with at least this initial version of the tune.

4K video: "Assemblage of Dawn Creatures." Mandelbulber 2.14, using formulas: Benesi Pinetree + Aexion Octopus Mod + Transform Rpow3. Music: Solo piano, improvised, one-take, unedited, hit "record" and rock it out for 4:50. Key of A minor.

(2nd half of video is more Benesi instead of Aexion Octopus, with the Shine plugin. I re-used frames from last week's animation to finish this one out. The piano improv was supposed to only be a couple of minutes, but it wanted to be almost five, so whadya gonna do? Just stop playing in the middle of it? )

https://vimeo.com/280228692


https://youtu.be/sBl707uigQA


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