Oh, I love this piece of Milana's ... And as I'm busy reading the song description as the same time I won't ask about the singer ;-)

... but I will ask about what this sound is ??!! It sounds like a cross between a cello and a trumpet doubling that bass of your !

Masterful bass work and adaptation Ray ... Very much enjoyed

This is very beautiful. I'm enjoying listening to your works.

Amazing painting with sounds and instrumentation. :)

This playlist is a collection of all the remixes of my piano improvisation that is based on Arty's motif:

https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/moonlight-stroll-milana

We decided to offer it for you to remix, arrange or orchestrate. You may download the track above or download the following archive:

http://www.milana.ws/audio/milana_moonlight_stroll.zip (54Mb)

that includes both this version and quantized version (90bpm) with both WAV and MIDI files.

Use your imagination :) You shouldn't follow the original piano as-is but as well can cut parts of the MIDI, leaving some connection to the original, e.g. by incorporating the same motif.

At the end I will choose the most unique and intriguing arrangements and send them to my publisher for commercial licensing - of course, upon mutual agreement about the split with the arranger :)
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Moonlight Stroll - Open Collaboration

Shiva in flagrante

Shiva Steps Out

The 7th Sense

All Lanes Merge Here

GOD IS GOOD OUT NOW EVERYWHERE

https://linktr.ee/onlyonejd

STREAM HERE

THANK THE LORD

Reviews

“Oh, what a special masterpiece!” Null
“I think it is magical.” LaAbril Dávila
“Success!” Entre Acordes
“The graceful melody of your music fascinates.” Chaam Sound
“ …an incredibly nuanced composition.” Sandhya Surendran
“…surprising and creates a mystical and enveloping atmosphere. If you appreciate jazz and instrumental music, this is a work worth listening to. It's a unique opportunity to experience new musical horizons and let yourself be carried away by the author's creativity.” Rádio Armazém


On-going debate asks whether music can convey meaning, and if it can, how does it? Of course, these arguments devolve into semantics. What do we mean by meaning? Leaving conundrums aside, the question of “meaning” in music, as we commonly understand that word, fascinates me.

This piece wonders how meaning is made, especially as posed by Noam Chomsky’s now famous sentence, “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” He purposely constructed that nonsensical sentence to research how we make meaning in things—even things intentionally devoid of meaning. Absolute music is an example. The composer intends it to be contemplated as pure music, as artistic abstraction without rational meaning, but I’m not sure that’s possible.

As Chomsky’s research showed, we seem compelled to discover or make meaning, intended or not. When we read Chomsky’s sentence, we can’t resist trying to figure out what it means. Is it emotional meaning as in a poem? Are “Colorless green ideas” and “sleep furiously” metaphors. perhaps for unresolved theories struggling for completion? Even from nonsense, we try to make meaning. It seems that besides meaning in the rational sense, e.g. the futility of war, or love conquers all, we also understand emotional or supra-rational meaning. “I don’t know what that piece is supposed say, but it really means something to me.”

  Even when a composer intends meaning, explicitly or implicitly, it seems to be no more valid or meaningful than what a listener may find—or invent. We may clearly understand what the composer intends to communicate from a program note or the music itself, but we aren’t simply receiving that information. Our minds compare, relate, and otherwise contemplate the music in many ways. Whatever the composer may have to say about it is only one of many aspects to which we respond and that determine whatever meaning we may or may not find.

As Chomsky’s sentence demonstrates so clearly, meaning is not solely conveyed by the composer’s intention. As listeners, we make it. Like composing, listening is a creative act.

The Dance
  A Maker in a sidewalk workshop builds various abstract objects and stands them outside, never interacting with passersby who enter singly and interact with each other in pairs or groups as they agree and disagree about the purpose or use of the objects. Social hierarchy, hubris, grief, sex, mysticism, etc. animate the dancers:
  A Maker who calmly, but fastidiously makes abstract objects, e.g. a pillar, an open triangle, a tall rectangular frame, etc.
  A naive and very curious Young Woman.
  A constantly confused and nearly naked Holy Man of unidentifiable origin and denomination.
  A middle-aged and harried Business Woman.
  A slick and overly confident Venture Capitalist.
  An irascible, but practically minded Bum.
  A sad young Genius whose great intellect always leads him back to where he began.
  After most have exited in frustration or confusion, the Maker sits down with his lunch box and thermos and eats his lunch, oblivious to the remaining dancers trapped in, or struggling with things he’s made.

Dance Music

The Maker for jazz orchestra

I Will Stay 2022 Paco De Lucia Edit

Can you understand?

Don't Let Me Down

This song was produced for my dad who passed away on 22/12/2022. I wish I had the opportunity to share this with him. He supported me in everything as much as my late mother did. To anyone who has been there, I share this with much sincerity. Enjoy.

Changes

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Another piano improvisation that is based on Arty's motif. We decided to offer it for you to remix, arrange or orchestrate. You may download this file or download the following archive:

http://www.milana.ws/audio/milana_moonlight_stroll.zip (54Mb)

that includes both this version and quantized version (90bpm) with both WAV and MIDI files.

Use your imagination :) You shouldn't follow the original piano as-is but as well can cut parts of the MIDI, leaving some connection to the original, e.g. by incorporating the same motif.

At the end I will choose the most unique and intriguing arrangements and send them to my publisher for commercial licensing - of course, upon mutual agreement about the split with the arranger :)

Here is the list of all the current mixes, which are publicly available on SC:
https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/sets/moonlight-stroll-open


Moonlight Stroll - Milana - on iTunes, Spotify - Open Collaboration!

I met https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik here on sound cloud. She posted a song called Moonlight Stroll for an open collab. Here is the link to that song. https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/moonlight-stroll-milana 
So I took my chances and made an orchestral mix for her piano. I hope you are going to enjoy it as much as we do! 

Moonlight Stroll

Moonlight Stroll - Milana (feat. Koen Janssen) Orchestral Mix

This is my orchestral setting of an original improvisation by the wonderful pianist / composer Milana Zilnik. She is making this available to all composers who might be interested in adding instrumental backing to her original piano mix for possible use on her next album. More info on this project, as well as the original piano track can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/moonlight-stroll-milana

Moonlight Stroll - Featuring Milana Zilnik

Milana - like so many others, I find your piano incredible and found this opportunity too good to resist. Some gentle guitar and some warm synth sounds, but to be honest, it was all there already. Good luck. Nick

Find Milana's original here and her other fab stuff from there https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/moonlight-stroll-milana


Milana - Midnight Stroll, Featuring Nick R Davies

I put some colour into Milana´s and Arty´s improv,,, it´s an open collab.  and I´m all into those at the moment.  This one was a bit hard cause of the rhythmic changes and also the relation between chords a bit, especially when Milana went flying somewhere :)...  but it was fun. Hope you like it.

info from her page:

Another piano improvisation that is based on Arty's motif. We decided to offer it for you to remix, arrange or orchestrate. You may download this file or download the following archive:

www.milana.ws/audio/milana_moonlight_stroll.zip (54Mb)

that includes both this version and quantized version (90bpm) with both WAV and MIDI files.

At the end I will choose the most unique and intriguing arrangements and send them to my publisher for commercial licensing - of course, upon mutual agreement about the split with the arranger :)
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Spotify: sptfy.com/93U
Facebook: fb.me/ZilnikMilana

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Milana Moonlight Stroll - open collab - Stein Thor reMix

When I heard this open collaboration of Arty's motif and Milana's improvisation, I fell in love with it.  It inspired this version and now I toss my hat into the ring with the other fine versions.

Edit:  So many people are asking me about the singer, I figured I should add it here.  It is a Native Instruments Kontakt library called Celtic Voices just released by a wonderful vocalist named Iona Leigh from Findhorn Scotland.

To read about or join the open collaboration:  https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/moonlight-stroll-milana

To hear all of the other wonderful versions:  https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/sets/moonlight-stroll-open

Moonlight Stroll - Milana With Ray McGinnis

Tones & I - Dance Monkey (Mohsen Kamel Remix)

Playing piano since I was four and studied in a musical school for ten years. Though, I always felt that playing by notes and singing in a choir is not enough to become a musician. I needed to be able to play anything I want by ear so, by starting improvising, I've found my own style of playing. When I teach children to play piano or sing, I offer them improvisation right from the beginning. I wish I was taught that way, since until my mid-30s I had hard times to relax and believe in my ability to create my own music. Twelve years ago my husband (@arty-sandler) finally convinced me to record some of my improvisations and we opened this account on SoundCloud - it happened in July, 2012.

You won't find a single particular genre on my cloud: my musical tastes are rather eclectic. Jazz and soft rock are my favorites but I also play blues, classical, folk, middle-eastern, New Age, ambient and others. Piano and vocal are my main instruments but together with my husband we also experiment a lot with different arrangements and orchestrations. 

When we started uploading our music to SoundCloud back in 2012, it was first shy attempts to record my improvisations straight from a keyboard. Many things have evolved since then. Over the years we've grown into a professional recording and composing studio, with a conservatory grand piano in an acoustically treated room and a bunch of microphones and other recording equipment. We scored a few documentaries, short films and animations. This year my orchestral and piano solo works were performed by Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for Bryan Arias’s ballet show based on “The Little Prince” story. We've published three books with my original scores for solo piano and released twenty original full-length albums (solo piano, multi-instrumental and original songs in various genres) and numerous singles that have been streamed over 70 million times across multiple platforms.

I am glad you stepped by into my musical world and appreciate your comments and following me.

I am a hobbyist composer and songwriter born in the deep south of the USA.  Back in the olden days of yore, I was an oboist, bass player and recording engineer..  That gave way to my second love, science and engineering.  I now program computers by day and play music as a hobby in my spare time.  I love music!  I love to listen to it , play it and attempt to write it.  To me music is all about having fun!

Since joining SoundCloud I have found a wealth of talent that has just amazed me.  It has been refreshing because of the garbage record company suits are trying to feed us all.  I also found a group of people who understand what it is that I am trying to do with music.  I appreciate you all.  Thanks for stopping by. ☺☺


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