At long last, my shamefully delayed response to Lukasz Langa. With the new baby and the end of year commitments, things just got a bit out of hand. (Among the other reasons I had to get a lot of rest, there was swine flu at my school!)

And now I hear there is too much distortion in this recording! Ah well, I want to keep to the rules. I worked mostly off of one of Lukasz’ harmonic schemes. Something about his post inspired me to improvise something more through-composed and less symmetric than my usual business, and I’m glad for that.

I will now be on hiatus as I travel to Geneva for a couple of weeks to the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, but as I will be taking lessons and seminars in improvisation, I may have a few live clips to blog from there. Blogging likely resumes after my return July 5.

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513

509-512

June 22, 2009

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509

510

511

512

508: Scandinaviana

June 20, 2009

For my friend CC, two months late is better than never I hope.

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508

506-507

June 20, 2009

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506

507

502-505

June 17, 2009

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502

503

504

505

498-501

June 14, 2009

And so we arrive at a major milestone. 500 pieces, each one improvised.

I hope you have enjoyed the blog so far. I’m pleased at how it’s stayed tightly focused on only music, serving my purposes as well as, hopefully, yours. And though I took a crack at making a couple of comments about reaching 500, I erased them. I want to continue to let the music speak for itself.

Plus I have to say, this isn’t my best set – ten or twenty back is better. :)

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498

499

500

501

496-7

June 11, 2009

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496

497

494-5

June 9, 2009

Two more from this week. Clawing my way back to productivity. Finals finish up this week.

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494

495

490-493

June 1, 2009

I managed to eke out a few over the week.

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490

491

492

493

One more week

May 17, 2009

Sorry folks, I’ve hit one of those periodic bouts of overwork/exhaustion I sometimes get. So I’m going to keep the blog on ice for another week. Should be back after the holiday weekend. Thanks for listening.