I hope this doesn’t violate the T.O.S. in any way.
I want to share with you guys a little of my music. This is from an improv session I recorded about a month ago with Breathoflife (ryan) so it’s a bit rough (it was pretty early AM). It’s 6 minutes and 27 seconds long, so it will take a moment to download.
It is just piano. This is a favorite passtime of mine, I think you will enjoy it.
Oops. I see (from the file name [and! even the link itself]) that you’ve already titled it “My theme.” Excellent. Forget my suggestion. Still, it does remind me of what you had said about yourself when you were young and riding on the bus.
Thank you, Elle. I enjoyed that. I’m curious as to which musical artists inspire you–who do you enjoy?
I am a HUGE Mozart fan, but actually i haven’t heard very much music… I also love Tchaikovsky. Lately a friend of mine has been sending a lot of Bill Conti’s music… you should check it out… I think he does soundtracks for films.
I am not a music expert but that greatly appealed to me. And because I’m not a musical expert, in a technical sense, things that appeal to me thave to touch on something far more then my understanding of the mechanics of music. It has to relate to how I see the world and what I find profoundly beautiful within it, and I think for me that speaks volumes for this piece.
How long have you been playing and what was your training?
Michael-
I took classical piano lessons for about 2 year when I was in elementary school. Once I learned to read music and the fundamentals of theory I began to loose interests in taking lessons and learnign to play other people’s music. Fortunately my parents bought a piano so I continued to practice. I think from the time I started taking lessons to now is probably about 10 years.
I want to share with you guys a little of my music. <a href=“http://www.reliant1.com/Elle Clark - My Theme.mp3”>My Theme</a>
Thanks so much for sharing this with us! I’ve really enjoyed it. I don’t know much about the technical aspects of music–my own field is fiction writing–but your harmonies sound rich, you range all over the keyboard very effectively, and I like the way that one motif keeps coming back, each time with a different harmony (at about 3:07 to 3:37 from the beginning, for instance). You use a lot of repeated notes, too. That’s something I’ve always loved in Rachmaninoff!
I wish you were pursuing a career in music. We need more works like this!
Very nice, Elle. I didn’t know there were other musicians on this site besides me. Maybe we can put on a concert together one day. I’d like to hear what a string arangement would sound like with your composition… Ah, now I need to figure out how to put some of my recordings on mp3. I’ve been meaning to for ever.
This reminds me a bit of George Winston’s piano work. (I absolutely love his Plains album) For improv, I think it has quite a bit of character. Good theme variation and overall structure B) Thank you for sharing.