giles denmark mitchell - Peace  work for piano July 4 - 4 july 2023 2

Embolism. Minimal piano. Empathy and change. Composed Christmas Day 2023.  Giles Denmark Mitchell

Embolism

embollisim - 25:12:2023 19.38

I perform blind. That is to say it's an adventure. This is recording has not been edited or post rewritten. I cannot read music thank god for  GarageBand so I can save what is been performed. Its improv totally.

Sometimes will add words or sing along - but this time I didn't. I am always trying to add nuances that if I fall its part of the music reality. Frailty can be come strength. The play of silence and emptiness and the surprise  without implication.

Enough ... Enjoy

Virtue. Piano.

Sep-06-2011-Performed-Hampstead-London

recorded obviously on a mobile phone as there is a bit of interference - so grid your teeth - but the penetration is not too long

Grid Lock : Dec_03_2012-003

another morning plagued by mobile phone inteferrance however played well and as i suffer from tinnitus the sound of the river in the background is in harmony with my human presence 

Tango for Iphone and Interferrance : Dec_05_2012-002

First time i hit the piano in 2013 - no edits - its all live - improv

2013 Raw

Sometimes the piano is only place one can go on a dull night

Slow night in Languedoc

Feb_04_2013-003

Nancy Semmerud passed away just a few hours ago. She was a good friend, who was pivotal in my life - introducing me to Minneapolis, and USA. We almost got married. I played this this morning to sum up in my own way  - Nancy Semmerud

For Nancy Semmerud

This is for Betty, my aunt, who died last weekend. She was an independant but generous woman, who had a career as a nurse. She was the last of my father's generation. The branches as it were have been cut off that part of the tree.

Betty

Music is in my soul. Performed improv piano since age 11 mostly on piano. Took the name Giles Denmark in 1976 in London - when I created a poetry music theatre work at performed at  Roundhouse, London. At the Troubadour on Monday nights would do improv on the piano mixing in my poetry. Before in the early 1970's had a Synhti A and created various installations and performances in Nottingham at Trent Poly and Midland Group Gallery. 

Moved to USA living in Minneapolis. Art works were multi media, some collaborations (with Chuck Zwicky, Donald Byrd (choreographer and dancer), Keith Froelich (film and video). Performance Art ( that included performance paintings  at First Ave, Jungle Theater, Franklin Furnace (New York). (more info ......to come)

Gdenmark

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