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Felt some inspiration to improvise again on the keys. Here's number 65.

As always, feel free to let me know your thoughts about this improv~

Hope you all enjoy,
Mike
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Piano Improvisation No. 65 | Epic/Emotional Piano Music

Opening the Gates

This piece came out of the same session as the previous tone poem.  Typically, these pieces come while I sit at the piano and play what comes through, it's interesting to see what a difference a few hours make.  Hope you enjoy!

Tone Poem 2 6_13-25

Raw recording of my daily piano meditation, July 2, 2025. 
Image: drawing in my ongoing cycle of "Inverted Explosions" 2022-

Piano Meditation July 2 2025

This is a very raw recording of this morning brief piano meditation in which the piano surprised me. At first it lead me towards some dark low tones, which happens a lot. Towards the end, it guided me into much lighter, gentler sounds. I dedicate this very humble improvisation to the memory of one of my heroes, the great minimalist composer Julius Eastman.

My art happens at the boundary between visual and sonic expression or rather, inside that boundary. I recall improvising on the piano on the morning of my first live performance in New York, at Diapason gallery in 2002. The gallery, devoted to sound and media art, was founded by composer Michael J. Schumacher. The exhibition space had a beautiful grand piano.

The live performance was an immersion in water, which was filling my vessel-like sculpture, 'Ennoia'. My collaborator, sound artist Stephen Vitiello, inserted microphones into the water. One could hear sounds of the underwater breathing and the water being moved by my curled up body, slowly moving in a circular way. 

What was not known to the audience was that the immersion performance was very much fueled by my time alone with the piano earlier that day. The body of the piano and my body became vessels, meant to emit sound. 

Image: detail from "Inverted Explosions X", 2022

Piano Meditation July 3 2025

As a teenager in Warsaw's School of Music I was practicing Chopin and other Romantics. But secretly, by night, I listened to Keith Jarrett. Trained classically, I fell in love with the layering of piano sounds that he so beautifully does in his non-classical recordings. A few years later I discovered Morton Feldman and the possibility of space - and silence - evoked around each piano key touched, in his amazing piano pieces. 

This morning's mediation is dedicated to both of them, a brief 5 min 45 sec encounter with the instrument. 

Photo by Paul Takeuchi, Brooklyn, 2021

Piano Meditation July 4 2025

Piano Meditation July 5, 2025
9 minutes 21 seconds
 
Sometimes in the past I’ve been asked about how my piano sounds before I transform the recordings into the electronic compositions. My Piano Mediations are an example of such a collection of improvisations, which are raw, unedited, uninterrupted intervals of time. recorded. 
 
Improvisation means listening. In order for the sound to occur, I have to surrender. My fingers, my body - and also my spirit - surrender to the instrument, which is then free to speak. 

Similarly, in my drawings I often feel I have to hear first, surrender to the surface of the paper. To allow its materiality merge with the substances of the pigments, the resin, the water and my body pressing against it all, lying down alongside the drawing, still wet and becoming whole.  Both in my studio work and within larger projects and themes, I try to maintain the position of listening, or smallness, the way Agnes Martin once described it, as "an attempt to be as small as the grain of sand”.

Image: 
Monika Weiss
Inverted Explosions IV (Odwrócone eksplozje)
2022
Resin, graphite powder, water, pencil on paper, 
Żywica, proszek grafitowy, woda, ołówek na papierze
72 x 39 inches (183 x 100 cm)


Piano Meditation July 5 2025

This morning on July 6, 2025, the raw recording of my Piano Meditation.

Today it felt at times like an overflow of volcanic matter was coming out of the piano. Yet it crystalized, from time to time, into ice and rain.

Image: Portrait of me touching the grand piano in the beautiful loft of Asher Remy-Toledo. Filmed/photographed by Adam Hogan, 2019



Dziś rano, 6 lipca 2025 r., surowe nagranie mojej Medytacji Fortepianowej.

Dzisiaj czasami czułam, jakby z fortepianu wydobywała się materia wulkaniczna. Jednak od czasu do czasu krystalizowała się w lód i deszcz.

Zdjęcie: Portret mnie dotykającej fortepianu koncertowego w pięknym lofcie Ashera Remy-Toledo. Sfilmowane/sfotografowane przez Adama Hogana, 2019


July 6 2025 Piano Meditation 2

2020.05.15_08 Improvisation played on a Pleyel Upright 113 cm

2020.05.15_06 Improvisation on a Pleyel Upright 113 cm

Piano Meditation July 11 2025 is a 13 min 38 sec raw, unedited improvisation recorded in the afternoon.

Image: 
Standing with my sound installation "Metamorphosis (Sound Sculpture)" which opened on Aug 24 2024 and remains on view at Laumeier Sculpture Park through Aug 24 2025. Photographed by ProPhotoSTL.

Piano Meditation July 11 2025

July 12 2025  Piano Meditation
14 minutes 49 seconds

Image:
Monika Weiss
Arkhe-Lost Canto
2017-2024
Still from film/sound composition
https://www.monikaweiss.net/arkhe-lost-canto

July 12 2025 Piano Meditation

At the time of making this track, I was trying to make my hands be completely independent of each other.  Creating a sort of polyrhythm.  This is just a one line track of just me on a midi controller trying to make piano music.  It's partially inspired by Arvo Part.

Chest Pain


This raw recording of my July 18 2025 Piano Meditation is dedicated to all the oceans, rivers and lakes of the world.


image:
close up of 
Monika Weiss
"Lake" (2024)
Resin, water, graphite powder, dry pigment pencil on rice paper, 72 x 34 inches
Photo by Jean Vong

July 18 2025 Piano Meditation

July 19 2025 Piano Meditation
14 minutes 53 seconds

This improvisation continues a cycle of songs that exist in relationship to my drawings. As always it is unedited and unmastered, and it will one day become part of a larger sonic whole. 

Image:
Monika Weiss
Lake II
2024
72 x 38 inches
Resin, water, graphite powder, dry pigment, pencil on rice paper
Photographed by Jean Vong

July 19 2025 Piano Meditation

July 23, 2025 Piano Meditation
15 minutes 2 seconds


image:

Monika Weiss
Glass Forest
2025
Performance based digital 4K film, silent, color
Duration 16 minutes 05 seconds
Film still
Directed, filmed, choreographed and edited by Monika Weiss
Movement performer: Tess Losada-Tindall

July 23 2025 Piano Meditation

Today's meditation happened in a moment of tiredness -  from the heat, from the world. 

It became a slow lullaby. A dream about rain, a tempest, perhaps approaching.

Image:
Film still of self-filmed performance (for the camera) during my BRIC artist residency

July 25 2025 Piano Meditation

In loving memory of my mother and father - improvised on July 27th 2025 at Pianoforte, Chicago. Fazioli Grand Piano 

mother and father

Una pieza para piano en tempo ligero que retrata la travesía de un gato curioso. 
Desde el calor de un sueño hasta el eco distante de un piano en la ciudad, el ritmo a 130 BPM guía su breve exploración urbana hasta su regreso a la calma.

Compuesta en Fa# menor, esta variación felina es una carta abierta a quienes buscan la belleza en lo efímero.

Allegro in F# minor – Neko Variations

The Music of Sound...really!!  It's all grist for the mill.  I visualize Sound/Music as colors, shapes and forms rather than notes in a scale.  I look upon each of these pieces as individual environments and/or sculptures in which to spend some time, looking round, feeling the curves, hanging out, exploring... Each composition is based on different elements, structures and rules or lack thereof.  Consequently, each is unique unto itself.  

Blissfully free of genre, everything is fair game:  beats; melodies; disquiet; washes; pulses; broken clichés and memes; subliminals; words and voices; chaos; sonorities; field recordings; indeterminacy; world music; the holy; the gutter; otherworld music; drones; synths; samples, etc. etc.  etc.  

I enjoy entering into the mitochondria of what makes a sound  that particular sound and then genetically change it into something entirely different than what it was - with just the essence lingering.  I also like to explore the "in-betweens" - spaces between beats, frequencies, timbres, spaces, tones, etc. In large part, simply, I'm curious to explore it all.  Suffice it to say, the wider your aperture the more you will hear and experience.  Et voila!

Oh!  Headphones will likely provide a more fulsome listening experience for many of the pieces.

You're thoughts/comments/feedback are very welcome.

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Some amazing sounds and artists out there!  Respect,
you all!

Hola! que tal!, me llamo "NekoTori"

Y soy aprendiz de Producción Musical en FL Studio principalmente.

Aquí compartiré mis experimentos musicales, siempre buscando calidad y evolución en cada nuevo proyecto. Mis géneros principales son LoFi, Synthwave, House, Deep, Drum and Bass, explorando ritmos vibrantes y envolventes. En un futuro, me gustaría hacer soundtracks cinematográficos y de videojuegos, ya que ese tipo de género musical siempre ha sido parte de mi inspiración. 

Mis influencias incluyen grandes compositores como Basil Poledouris, Steve Jablonsky, Hans Zimmer, así como artistas de videojuegos que han marcado mi estilo, como Akemi Kimura, Naoto Tanaka, Soichi Terada y los talentosos creadores detrás de soundtracks como Blue Archive, Nier, Hoyo-Mix, o Vanguard Sound Studio...

Si disfrutas de atmósferas sonoras con toques nostálgicos y cinematográficos, ¡este es tu lugar!

Monika Weiss is a New York based contemporary sound and intermedia artist, originally from Warsaw

Hello and Welcome!     

It is so very wonderful to have discovered a beautiful world of music here on soundcloud. So many talented composers, musicians and artists. This is awesome and overwhelming at the same time... 
                  
I have always considered myself to be mainly a composer and then a pianist. I have been writing my own works since the age of 16. The first instrument that I ever played was a violin at age 6, then I began Classical piano training at age 7. My mother played violin, piano, organ and sang in the choir for the church we attended in my childhood... I hope that you will enjoy my music, it is an art that I love to work at every day....(to be continued)

Thank you for listening...

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improvisation based ambient/drone/noise/experimental/abstract artist.

I use soundcloud as a place to post recently finished songs and one offs that won't be released on an album.  

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I always enjoy adding my own touch and flavour to the music that I play, keeping the songs fresh and unique to my musical personality. I hope you all enjoy what I deliver!

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