The Daily Improvisation

559-563: Five Improvisations for a Snowy Day

ericbarnhill — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:52:46 +0000

Arrival of the holidays. A blanket of fresh snow. A millstone of guilt around my neck for accidentally waking up my family by leaving my alarm clock set. Yep, it’s a good day to improvise.

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ericbarnhill — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:36:37 +0000

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Clearing way for the new sound

ericbarnhill — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:08:44 +0000

As those of you know who have been patient enough to follow The Daily Improvisation through its fallow fall, my improvisations have developed a lot lately, spurred on by some wonderful lessons with the improviser Joy Kane.

As a result I’m creating two jukeboxes, one from the advent of the “new sound” as it were and one archival. The new jukebox is http://cognitive-eurhythmics.com/latestjukebox and the archival is http://cognitive-eurhythmics.com/archivaljukebox . Both are linked to in the “play the jukebox” sidebar.

While I’m making some announcements, you might be happy to know that three of my improvs have hit more than ten thousand downloads, and a few dozen more are between one and two thousand listens. A lot of the downloads are coming from China but I am having trouble figuring out from where, so I can’t make contact with whatever fans these are.

This is always a tough time of year for improvising but as any of you following me long term know, I always pick myself back up and get improvising again when time allows. Happy Thanksgiving and you’ll hear more from me before the holidays.

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ericbarnhill — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:53:07 +0000

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ericbarnhill — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:06:31 +0000

540-550: Six week recap

ericbarnhill — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:22:18 +0000

A little catch up from the Daily Improvisation. My first fall thrown into a full teaching schedule with baby at home. So I think some of the explanation for the absence is self-explanatory. There’s musical developments too. My improv teacher is continuing to push me into new and different sounds, so keeping up daily practice for her is a high priority. I am also trying to rewire a bit how I think during performing, in a way that would be hard to explain, but might be described as letting emotional motivation trump the formal. So without further ado, here’s eleven improvs that represent the last few weeks. See you soon, hopefully.