I listen to a lot of people try to improvise but they don't know how. It's what I specialize in when teaching. I have a young girl I've worked with for several years. Children are amazing when you don't hinder them with method books.

@user-138663860: I shall, dear friend. Thank you, and i really appreciate you re-posting and commenting. Cheers, always! :-D

Really beautiful piano playing! bravo... 🙏🏻

The faceless, soulless capitalist cabal offers its sincerest condolences and apologies for monetizing life itself, but the apology is hollow and meaningless, falling upon decidedly unsympathetic ears.

How might it sound if our global corporate overlords offered their most lizard-heart-felt apologies for any "inconvenience" their greed and avarice have brought upon our lives? We think it might sound pretty insincere. You know, like a gaslighting apology: "We're sorry you feel that way." There may be an official apology "issued" but culpability is nowhere in sight.

This song started as an innocent and good natured attempt on our part to collaborate with Holy Shitshow @user-649412648 who provided the original piece months ago which inspired this whole crazy chain of events. 

Next thing we knew, it was this whole song and the raft had drifted pretty far away from collaboration island in the process. We still used the piece in the song, and we are grateful for HS to be a part of it in the end. We think it made for a great foundation and love the ambiance it provides to the whole song. Riunite on ice, that's nice!  https://youtu.be/_onOllDF2GY

We dig Holy Shitshow's music deeply, so please hear the original here and we hope you show some love their direction as well: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-649412648/northwestsoutheast-first-wave-open-collab

This track also features some special guests:
On the flute we have Nick Collias
On the saxophone we have @metal-mark Mark Wand

Guitar, ukulele, bass guitar, omnichord, keyboards, melodica, samples, vocals, mix & master, Artwork by PS Perkins

Drums and percussion, mixing assist by R Thomas (@analog-shack)

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We Apologize For The Inconvenience

Blue

Photo credit Brandie on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Subterranean

Here's a lovely tender-hearted Piano improvisation in Three Parts from several years back that I found in my 'musical vault' today. It's kind of a hymn to the wonders and beauties of Nature. 

The 1st part goes til 2:53.
The 2nd one begins at 2:54 and moves through to 5:31
The 3rd proceeds to the end, (and the Beginning).  :)

 Don't know how it got lost, but so glad to have found it again. :)

I'm pretty sure it was an homage to one of my favorite streams and its surrounds, as the experience it evoked within washed over me.
May it also awaken something lovely in you, dear Listeners. 

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

An Ode to Nature's Beauty

My new song has lots of piano, atmospheric synths, bass, drums, vocals and acoustic guitar sounds! Thank you to my wonderful boyfriend, Sander for this gorgeous mastering job. @wane-of-summer 😊💕❤️🎶🎤🎹🎵

WHEN THE MOOD TAKES ME...

The guitar idea for this piece was originally recorded back in 2015.
It stayed on my hard drive until i stumbled across it again recently. 
I liked the chords as they brought back some memories and feelings of nostalgia......

Memento

Memento (Instrumental in maj 7)

Dreaming Of The Golden City

Arrival

Song by Tony Harrell. This version recorded at Buck's Place studio.

High School Reunion

« Far Horizons » for Flute & Piano - Live recording !
Duration : 2'50
Composed by hand writing in my home-studio from Friday, May 16 to Wednesday, May 18, 2022
VST score editing with Dorico 4
Recorded at the « Medieval parties » at the castle of Pomboz on Sunday, July 3, 2022 - F 73310 - Saint Pierre de Curtille by :
Franck Douvin : Flute (and composer of this piece)
Laurent Carle : Piano
Franck Douvin © 2022 Contemporary Chamber Music
Thanks for listening & sharing. I hope you'll enjoy!

« Far Horizons » for Flute & Piano - Live recording !

longing to greece with love from paris

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life and a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer,  as far as I'm concerned,  our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting up with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

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