I always feel better about things when I make time to play in the morning - it is of course good practice but it also helps clear my head for the day. There's a lot of things going on - I completed Spidey's music and she now has her own page on music2work2, I intend on writing a a longer blog post for that in the near future. I've been working on a new piece called "Maja" and the story of how it came about is quite remarkable combining: domestic violence, serendipity and outrageous fortune - sounds cool huh? Anyway - here's this morning's theme - it is a little development of the Maja theme and segues nicely into a G minor version of Scary Movie Music - an old theme that I have yet to deliver - maybe that'll come soon? [display_podcast]
So its Friday night – its been a crazy week, W is asleep and I know that I need to play – so – before I pull out the wireless card – (don’t ask me why but the wireless card interferes with my nice sound card) I throw out a tweet asking for a number. Spidey replies with 107. I’m stoked – it’s a prime number. I plug it into my metronome and start recording a 107 beats per minute click to freestyle on top of. I do this before I take the card out as I want to write a tweet and say thank you to Spidey and I was still dropping an email to Richard.
Spidey’s interesting: Australian, mum, 3 kids, married, funny. She likes shopping, Vegas, LA, Irish boys, shoes and booze, I think her husband’s a musician – what’s not to like? Anyway, I send my tweet, pull out the wireless card, disable any unnecessary processes (scary amount!) and turn to the Triton.
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I love Australia – I traveled there between school and University 20 years ago. Fly into Melbourne – drive to Surfers – up the coast to Cairns, dive on The Great Barrier Reef (my reason for going) , stay on Magnetic Island, work the milk factories in the suburbs and play piano in the Brisbane Hotel – it was a magical time a magical place and the people were some of the nicest I have met on the planet.
Now – removing the rose tinted spectacles – I’m sure everything is different – but one thing always seems to remain with Aussies – their attitude. It’s different, it’s unique – its not “I can” – it’s more “I know I can” – and sure – in some of them – that can manifest as arrogance – but to the people I have met – it manifests as a confidence. What you get as a result is a take no bullshit – give loads of bullshit approach – which is always fun.
Here’s the piece that was in my head when I was thinking about her. I lost a 10 minute development of it to a bad click track – bummer.
Parts 1, 2 and 3 later on this weekend.
"Amy's Lullaby" by Mars Lasar, as the name might suggest, is a very sweet song. It is piano driven and has
a lovely melody. It is calming and soothing.
The sound of the music box brings back memories of one that was given to me as a child. I loved to play it over and over. When the box lid was opened, the movement or mechanism of the music box was revealed. I watched the cylinder go round and round as the notes emanated from the little metal pieces striking the cylinder. I was fascinated that such pretty music came from this little wooden box. I think the song it played was "Fur Elise."
Mars Lasar is another musician Last.fm lists as being similar to music2work2. In fact, this particular song reminds me of music2work2’s “Vincent.” Two very pretty songs that can calm and sooth the listener, regardless of age.