how am i supposed to tell people my favorite song is an improvisation

Your playing in this reminds me sooo much of when I'm messing around on piano. It almost makes me feel more connected to every sound. I love this.

inspired to post an improve piece! ThanksJeff

Kind of gives a little bit of a classic detective film feeling. C:

THE LOADER ON MY CELL PHONE MATCHES THE TEMPO

@Jeff liu You improvised this whole song? Beautiful.

Love this! Well done! I would be honored to have you listen to my music!

formless and floating
dizzy
i'm trying i'm trying
this is all i can do

it was windy today (improvisation)

the tension you feel in your chest and your neck
when intuition fails
the slight glisten of tears smeared across your wrist
like a trail of slime from a snail

if the universe is a toaster
we are clearly toast
that's for all us people
that's all, that's all folks

impossible staircase
melting clock draped over me
ascending and descending
pondering persistent memory

we only get a fraction of
the life of which we dream
that's how it's always been
that's how it's gonna be



i want to sever the limbs of this insect
we are caught in its web
how can i be happy
when the world i love is so sad?
i wanna say sorry
for the sadness of history
eyes water, refract the light
distort the image that i see

i want everything to be okay
i want the world to be okay
i want everyone to be okay
i just want you to be okay

That's All Folks

Set 38 of my Songs without Words ends with a cheerful mix of a brisk waltz (with some syncopations along the way) and a central section in something of a jazzy mood. Rather a fun number

SWW38.7

doodle for a friend which i like enough to post!

Rainy

Homestuck - 8 Stride

I decided to go with solo piano for this week's #Tunesday, something simple and sweet... with a few half diminished chords here and there, and delicious harmonies all-around c: 

Heavily influenced by Debussy (primarily La Mer) and accidentally closely resembles Ravel's "Une Barque Sur L'Ocean", literally came across this piece on accident minutes before uploading this via checking #impressionism in Soundcloud, and I'm already in love with it, (oops... though I totally had Chrono Cross in mind but it seems like Animal Crossing New Leaf's Island Night Theme was noted by others as well).

For some reason, this image/gif reminded me of an opening cutscene, and I was enticed to recreate the feeling of having that burning desire to take on the world, but also needing time to process everything & taking a moment to breathe.

Speaking of which, I'm off to travel a bit again. Next stop, Hawaii ~ 

Artwork by Jennyyuu
Image/gif source: https://fatal-pulse.tumblr.com/post/161251519301

Breathe

Music Written By: Chris Wonfor / ClefferNotes

Hey everybody, I am very pleased to present to you a new original track I composed, I decided to give the track a lot of textures and a big sound space, here is how it turned out! 

I recently purchased a new toy: Orchestral Swarm, so I thought I would try it out. 

Enjoy and thank you for listening

- Software Used -

Logic Pro X, Kontakt
Spitfire Audio: Orchestral Swarm, Olafur Arnalds Toolkit, Albion One, V.

Heavyocity: Gravity

In the Winds Breath

To shed some light about how the piece was created, Will has shared some insight into how he went about approaching the concept of Scale.

'Throughout my career I've almost exclusively relied upon my ability to perform and record all the elements of my arrangements through multi-tracking as the means for realizing my compositions.

Because of this I am all too familiar with having to wrangle with proximity effect (how close an instrument or sound source is to the diaphragm of the microphone) and how can either aid or negatively impact a compositions sense of space and convincing ensemble qualities.

When Jim Perkins approached me about contributing to this compilation and mentioned the overarching theme was "scale" I immediately thought of how I might use proximity effect as a guiding identity for a composition.

For this project I decided to disassemble a few music boxes and experiment with using some of my larger instruments (my harp, Concert bass and kettle drum) as resonators for the boxes and mic'ing them at a good distance away from the attack of the tines giving these tiny little instruments a sound far more resonant than they would've had in there original cases. I pitted these ideas against the sound of the highest register of several larger instruments (Harp, Contrabass, cristal bichet and piano) playing the very highest register they could muster, mic'd them extremely close with small diaphragm mics to emphasize the attack and smallest minutiae of performative gestures. I continued to build on this inversion of physical size and pitch relationship for all the subsequent overdubs and arrangement (bass clarinet playing super high multi-phonics, the viola being tuned down a whole fifth and playing two octaves below the basses artificial harmonics etc etc)

It was a joyful little exercise and the tonality and spirit of the peace represents that enjoyment, I think!

Scale

William Ryan Fritch - Disproportionate Joys

Rheinberger Missa Brevis (Kyrie)

This is the music for my 3rd year film project at CalArts. It features a plectrum banjo and an mbira I borrowed from my World Music teacher. Luckily the mbira was relatively in tune enough to play together with the banjo at the end!

it was windy today (improvisation)

Jeff Liu

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