Great changes...I really enjoyed this. I love waltzes.

Love, how the second theme comes in @ 0:35 and then evolves in the right hand into the lower and upper musical line. Great modulation as the piece turns to minor @ 1:10. until the end. Takes you on a journey where you are always surprised by the turns in the harmonics

Beautiful waltz, it's nice to hear you play the piani. A pleasure to listen to a great musician

gotta love a waltz...and a pelican...great composition

The compass to simulate the passage of the bird when walking.

This album has been reworked, remastered, and released in collaboration with the charitable music project Playing to Pitch In. Spotify link: open.spotify.com/album/3GSMJAS4OA…b_TU6Gktqukfvr2Q

This album is designed as a continuous medley, with each track flowing into the next. Recurring themes and musical elements tie the pieces together (e.g., "Windswept Wilderness" reprises some elements from previous tracks), and some of the endings in tracks are intended as semicolons rather than periods (e.g., the final cadence in "Ocean Star" that sets up "Little Blackwater Sound", the counterpoint sequence at the end of "Waltz of the Pelicans" that sets the darker mood for "Wonders of the Underworld", or the unresolved chord at the end of "Wonders of the Underworld" that is resolved by the opening chord of "Shadows of a Spider Spinning Silk").

The album art depicts the contour plot of a random potential energy landscape.  I used the mathematical software Maple to plot several equipotential curves from a potential energy landscape generated by random point charges.  While this underlying mechanism for generating the picture has nothing to do with the album title, the resulting image somehow strikes me as both "orby" and "spidery", also with some of the curves "weaving" around others, so I decided to go with it!

Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver (solo piano album)

teacups of golden love light

Opening track in the "Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver" album https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver.  The album has been reworked, remastered, and released in collaboration with the charitable music project Playing to Pitch In.  Spotify link:  https://open.spotify.com/album/3GSMJAS4OA22ECx4wq7jDN?si=CzEcd-b_TU6Gktqukfvr2Q

This track serves as a prelude to the rest and for the subsequent track "Ocean Star" in particular.  The rest of the album is rather dark and emotional, so in this prelude I aimed for something light, calm, and peaceful with just a hint at some of the later darker themes.  The impressionist-style waterfall just after the middle of the song is indeed Debussy-inspired (it is just a simple pentatonic pattern similar to ones that appear in plenty of songs, but for me this type of pentatonic run is iconic of Debussy's Arabesque).  The 6/4 time signature gives a little extra space to elaborate on this riff, and I was pleased with how it sounds as a resolution to the cadence leading up to it.  While the song has a shifting tonal center, it is certainly not as tonally destabilized as Debussy's music, and this (along with the simplicity of the locomotive rhythm) affords an opportunity to prepare the listener for a climactic sense of arrival as the pentatonic run appears.   I wanted the middle section of the song to offset the minimalism that is present at the beginning and end of the song, and this Debussy-style riff serves as a nice centerpiece for that.

Ripples In Spacetime

This is the 2nd track in the "Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver" album https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver.  The album has been reworked, remastered, and released in collaboration with the charitable music project Playing to Pitch In.  Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3GSMJAS4OA22ECx4wq7jDN?si=CzEcd-b_TU6Gktqukfvr2Q Among the songs in the playlist, it was written first (around 2011 while the rest were written in 2021-2022).

Ocean Star

This is the 3rd track in the "Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver" album https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver.  The album has been reworked, remastered, and released in collaboration with the charitable music project Playing to Pitch In.  Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3GSMJAS4OA22ECx4wq7jDN?si=CzEcd-b_TU6Gktqukfvr2Q

The ending of the preceding track "Ocean Star" (the section after it changes to 4/4 time signature) resolves to a new key (E-flat major) serving as a lead-in for the current track.  

One may notice a "tempo rubato" in comparison to the other tracks on the album.  I played along to a metronome throughout most of the other songs, and I found it to be very challenging.  So, it was a liberating experience to not use the metronome for most of this song.  In the future, I will reconsider the benefits of a metronome and perhaps utilize a hybrid approach breaking free of the metronome more often.  Using the metronome makes editing much easier, but one of the powerful expressive tools unique to solo piano is the limitless control one has over the tempo.

Little Blackwater Sound

This is the 4th track in the "Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver"  album https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver.  The album has been reworked, remastered, and released in collaboration with the charitable music project Playing to Pitch In.  Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3GSMJAS4OA22ECx4wq7jDN?si=CzEcd-b_TU6Gktqukfvr2Q

One intention with this track was to have something (relatively) upbeat and playful to follow the more emotional previous tracks "Ocean Star" and "Little Blackwater Sound" before diving into the subsequent dark and indulgent tracks.  The upbeat mood winds down and darkens before concluding in a counterpoint sequence (with some hint of the melodic minor) intended to set the mood for the subsequent track.

Sheet music available on request.

Waltz of the Pelicans

This is the 5th track in the "Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver" album https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver.  The album has been reworked, remastered, and released in collaboration with the charitable music project Playing to Pitch In.  Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3GSMJAS4OA22ECx4wq7jDN?si=CzEcd-b_TU6Gktqukfvr2Q

Wonders of the Underworld

"Inspired by the idea of a road trip and young destructive love. I wanted to hear the urgency of the wheels down the open road and the dust cloud left behind. Part chaos and rebellion. Part serenity and possibility. By the end of this coming of age song I can see the car driving away into the distance, full of optimism and potential"

A coming of age love song - "Beautiful Thunderous"

All I want to get is your affection
I'm not sure I can get your attention right now, right now
You take me all the places I want to go
You make me grin when I see your hair grown out and I like that

Our love is thunderous
Our love is thunderous
It's wonderful and wanderlust
It's beautiful and thunderous
Our love is wonderful, wanderlust, beautiful thunderous

"Pack your bags" you say, you need me
Take me there in the height of summer, let me burn
I'll burn for you
Get into my old black car now
We'll scream and shout and love our way down to the bright lights
I feel free now, free now

© Heart House Records 2022

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

Inspired by:
#HarryStyles #EdSheeran #The1975 #KingsOfLeon

Beautiful Thunderous (Lo-Fi Acoustic + Reverb Version)

Warmer Regen

Warmer Regen (Warm Rain)

Another world

Another World

A study on Big band in classical style...
Made with Divisimate, Session horns, Audiomodelling,TEC breathcontrol and Altiverb.

Big Band Short Cut (composer/performer Ad van Nederpelt)

Impromptu N° 119 « The Rainbow » for Piano
Composed, played and recorded by myself in my home studio on Saturday, March 11, 2023
Picture taken by myself in front of our stone house at Saint Pierre de Curtille in Savoy - F of this awesome Rainbow...!!
For me, the Rainbow makes visible the « Elohims », spiritual entities normally hidden from common mortals, and which are constantly present around us in the rays of sunlight
Franck Douvin © 2023 Piano impromptus
Score available on my website : www.franckdouvin.com
Tab : Enregistrement(s) du jour
Thanks for listening and sharing
I hope you'll enjoy !

Impromptu N° 119 « The Rainbow » for Piano

Chapter 136 of 266
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In My Desperation

I grew up in the Florida Keys where both of my parents worked as musicians in the entertainment business.  My grandmother taught me to play the piano at an early age.  I ended up pursuing a career in mathematical research and teaching, but in my free time I enjoy composing music mainly for piano.

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