Name: Improvisation 3rd Feb 2013, in the afternoon by Wes
Duration: 3 min 55 s
Description: I borrowed a Zoom H4n portable recorder to have a play with - this is my first improv session with it switched on so I hope the quality is great.

I absolutely love what you do. A balanced blend of strength and softness. Many variations. Many pauses, silences. You're a musician who knows how to listen to his little secret voice.

This is reminiscent of a late afternoon vibe - the day not over yet almost done - I sense the meloncholic but not maudlin - the reflection at 1.39 is hopeful 1.56 seems to reflect on conflict - 2.59 transition is unexpected - and well recovered - I know when improvising sometimes an errant note or quick detour off the main theme that is overtaken perhaps by emotion is often the most important part of an improvisation in how you "recover" or "resolve it. Lovely work.

https://www.nts.live/shows/wxaxrxp/episodes/boards-of-canada-23rd-june-2019

Boards of Canada - Societas x Tape 230619

Michael McGoldrick - Strange Journey

#3566: Sep. 19, 2023: While the Lilly white shall in love delight ("William Blake's Poetry (Japanese version)" from Aug. 24, 2023) 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3566(78.6%) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

My new message: "Does it make sense to preserve it for 1000 years?"

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

Today's chairhouse's daily video magazine of piano ten thousand leaves music & AI created Artworks.
https://youtu.be/hsnHadtUF2s

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.


######## NEW 24th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Deep Forest Girl" - the 24th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

Youtube: Full(20 songs, 50 minutes) and HD video by Midjourney - AI
https://youtu.be/-pvjcnFysTk

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/6zftjWuL7JMF0vNYgLTSaQ

apple music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/deep-forest-girl-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-volume-24/1692518303

amazon music
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https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002e6f6be

AWA:
https://s.awa.fm/album/bd73bf6d8ea694823e31

Other Every music streaming services in the world
https://linkco.re/yDNpmUYN?lang=en

While The Lilly White Shall In Love Delight - #3566 By Chair House 230919

Work3

SonarMix 046 breaks with the norm: it's not music you'll  have heard in a club (at least in this century). Following the release of her second album 'Moves In The Field' on Warp, virtuosa pianist Kelly Moran gives us a history lesson in piano music ahead of her appearance at Sónar by Day. "If I could program an evening of my favourite piano music, these are the pieces I would play for the audience.”


@kellymoran 

Tracklist:
Kelly Moran - Vesela
John Luther Adams - Dark Waves
Tape - Dripstone
Molly Joyce - Rave (performed by Vicky Chow)
John Cage - Sonata no. 12
Maurice Ravel - Miroirs II “Oiseaux Triste” (performed by Philippe Entremont)
Claude Debussy - Pour Les Tierces (performed by Mitsuko Uchida)
Nico Muhly - A Hudson Cycle
Kelly Moran - Dancer Polynomials
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Halo
György Ligeti - Cordes A Vides (performed by Fredrik Ullen)
Kelly Moran - Superhuman

SonarMix 046: Kelly Moran

My Favorite Things - Yoko Kanno

Piano Suite IV Music from Fragile Light Spaces
After Rachel Whiteread, Nazarin Montag and Roberto Battista

The starting point for this work was artist Rachel Whiteread's sculpture piece where she'd cast into plaster the shape of the space underneath a bed.  I set out to try something similar in composition; at the time Whiteread was working in the Arctic so I began to think about the shapes of spaces within icebergs and to allow these imagined cavities define peaks, troughs and edges of the music.  Later on, I sought extra visual input so I collaborated with two photographers also preoccupied with the depiction of spaces.

I used a sequence of light drawings by Nazarin Montag to complete the first six pieces in the suite:  "Using the camera as a 'drawing tool' I sketched the transfer lounge of Newark Airport Terminal NYC; a transient space through which motion is defined by its architecture. As I passed through I drew traces of artificial light on the surface of the film and discovered a hidden world that lies within." (Nazarin Montag, 2005)

Photographs by Roberto Battista enabled the completion of the suite's final piece, Cloud Sky Fade; "Because of my habit of staring at the sky I've often hurt myself.  At the same time, I've read so many stories in the passing clouds that travel around the world witnessing the lives of countless people that I don't regret a few bruises." (Roberto Battista, 2005)

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7 Cloud Sky Fade


Part 2 Music From Fragile Light Spaces



Piano Suite VII: Collection 2009
After Hussein Chalayan


During the spring of 2009 the Design Museum in London organised a debate at Shoreditch Town Hall, hosted by Cypriot-born designer/artist Hussein Chalayan, to explore what makes London such a magnet for the artistic community throughout the world.  I had been invited by the museum to create a music performance inspired by Chalayan who was on exhibition at the time.  Taking his interest in the issues of cultural migration and displacement as my starting point I ran a questionnaire at the debate to capture the family histories of his audience.  190 questionnaires were returned, and these created 190 unique family tales, each spanning three generations across a hundred years. 

The people poetry I collected through asking my questions allowed me to roam through a borderless sound-territory creating music that would otherwise not have been found but for the lavishly diverse family histories I was lucky enough to bask in.  I commissioned John Kennedy to create drawings from the tales which gave me additional triggers for the composition.  The complete tales, with Kennedy’s cover illustration “The Sea of Names”, are held in the Design Museum library.

After writing the music I had one final process to go through. I filtered words from the 190 tales and ended up with four narrations in the style of radio news reports.  The narrations were read aloud in between the piano pieces by the correspondent, Mihir Bose - whose voice I have admired from afar for many years.   And so “Suite VII: Collection” is a work that’s in the style of a live radio show.  The narrations are at the back of this book.   Pianists performing this suite are encouraged to have the narrations read aloud in this order: narration 1, piece 1, narration 2, piece 2, narration 3, piece 3, narration 4, piece 4.  

Metronome markings are indications of general tempo feel.


1		London is a rhythm (unrecorded)
2		First memory
3		The Sea of Names
4		Across one hundred years


1 The Sea Of Names

Updated with EastWest's "Hollywood Brass" on June 6th 2012

TIE Fighter - Main Theme and Introduction (v2)

By Peculiar Grace And Other Loves

Karim

I borrowed a Zoom H4n portable recorder to have a play with - this is my first improv session with it switched on so I hope the quality is great.

Improvisation 3rd Feb 2013, in the afternoon

I’m a classically trained pianist and violinist originally from Australia. I make minimalist piano textures through a process of improv and experimenting with recording processes.

Inspiration: pianists and artists such as the necks (and chris abrahams), keith jarrett, steve reich, lola perrin, tigran hamasayan, colleen... and many others! You can see more music I love on My Jam: https://www.thisismyjam.com/wesbot

Everything is unrehearsed and improvised unless otherwise stated.

Improvisation 3rd Feb 2013, in the afternoon

Wes

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