An interpretation of:

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Naviar haiku challenge 608, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I had an idea of the structure and development of this track quite quickly. Young grass tempted to deviate by sequences entering from either side, temptation resisted, unbent growth represented by a final melody. Decided to use VCV Rack for this one. As I was going to be assembling the elements in a live mix I knew I wouldn't be able to play the final melody and manipulate everything else, hence VCV I was able to assemble the melody as multiple sequenced blocks that are played randomly, leaving my hands free for other things.  There is a lot of subtle modulation in each of the elements some of which had to automated; even using PatchMaster from MindMeld to set up performance macros where one knob controls multiple things I quickly ran out of physical controls; so like the melody I made a few practical compromises in what I manipulated live.  

I set everything up to record live to multiple tracks giving me the freedom to tweak the mix during the mastering stage. Other than EQ, saturation and gentle compression on both individual tracks and the master; the only extra effect I added is a very light touch of K7D - Tape Delay from imaginando on both sequences, the subtle ping-pong echoes integrated them intp the whole.   

Young Grass - (naviarhaiku - 608)

S2S Fall Jamns 2025 - Session 10

through lines  9.19.25

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony 7 . Time 2.

Johannes Brahms:
Two Intermezzi from Klavierstucke Op. 119, in b minor and e minor

Johannes Brahms

Chopin Piano sonata Funeral March, Op.35, no.2 by Maksim

Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 4 "Suffocation" (1835)
So emotional yet so logical, so easy yet so tricky.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lM6Hvin-0

I took some liberties with it, replacing the chords on the left hands with mini arpeggios, and playing it on electric instruments. I call this take "Electrocution". :-) A little bit Vangelis-style.

The instrument is Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Rhodes Mark I electric piano set to low and a pulse wave virtual-analog waveform oscillator.

Video

Chopin - Prelude No. 4 "Suffocation" [Electrocution]

Chopin's G minor Ballade is one of those pieces that is played a great deal and often rather mangled by exaggerated rubato and mannered interpretation. I love to reveal the unvarnished truth about music, to reveal its natural patterns and structure. For me, allowing the rhythm and melodic lines to flow with natural flexibility only adds to the extraordinary cathartic beauty of Chopin's refined yet emotional and virtuoso composition.

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Ballade in G minor op. 23 - Chopin

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Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B minor op. 58

Four Mazurkas, Op. 30: No. 1 in C Minor, Allegretto non tanto

Chopin - Four Mazurkas, Op. 30 - Mazurka in C minor - Allegretto non tanto (No. 1)

This is thought by many to be the greatest piece of music ever written.  Jerry Davis completed his interpretation of the first two movements of this great symphony transcribing each note for each instrument into a MIDI sequencer within Cakewalk's Sonar X1 Producer.  The software for the instruments is East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Platinum Plus.

The opening of the first movement of this great symphony resembles an orchestra warming up before it bursts forth with bombastic, boastful, blissful, blasts of emphatic emphasis.  

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125
1st Movement - Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
Ludwig van Beethoven


Beethoven's 9th Symphony - 1st Movement

more video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mXiW7hH1KA

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V. Monti, Czardas (Valentk777)

atmospheric piano + electronica

playing Barber, Beethoven, Chopin, Craig Armstrong, David Arnold & Michael Price, Ennio Morricone, Erik Satie, Handel, Harry Gregson-Williams & John Powell, John Ottman, John Williams, J.S. Bach, Kanye West, Leonard Cohen, Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richter, Michael Nyman, Michel Polnareff, Mike Oldfield, Mozart, Nino Rota, Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, Ravel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Serge Gainsbourg, Vangelis, Vladimir Cosma, Yann Tiersen, Yiruma

Chopin - Prelude No. 4 "Suffocation" [Electrocution]

Piano in a Living Room