As close as I get to X-mas music

[drstawl]

I took down the chest pain piece to save some space and put up tonight's composition.

Being an atheist doesn't exclude me from the winter solstice holiday cheer of most organized religious persuasions.
The work of J.S. Bach along these lines continues to be an inspiration. His stuff has an infectious cheer to it that can't be quantified.

My latest MIDI stab at this is:

#17 in the MP3 Gallery @

http://members.home.net/drstawl/midi.html

 

[OneLouder]

Very intriguing piece of music. Strangely enjoyable in an unconventional sort of way and vaguely reminiscent of contintental european experimental short film soundtracks... in a strange kind of way. Thats a compliment by the way.

 

[Mountaineer]

I think it needs some sleighbells . . . I threw a couple out that you can have if ya want em

PAPicker

 

[dobro]

Hey, it's still four weeks until the festival of new light.

What we got here is a resonance, and a really nice one at that. I love that breathy, voicy sound - really, really love it. I like the energy on this one too, and trusted it because you mentioned you'd been listening to Johann Sebastian. I didn't listen to the chestpain piece for the same reason - it pays to attend to where someone's coming from. Let me know when you start tuning into the life way inside you - I'll listen to everything you do. In the meantime, keep listening to JSB, as it's having a very good effect on your music.

Also, I'm starting to wonder if you ever spend much time putting any one piece together - they seem to spontaneous recently. I'm wondering for more than one reason. However, one reason's a good one - you could easily make this piece longer, especially if you did something like halve the rhythm at some point and then returned to the pell mell original rhythm. That way you wouldn't have to repeat any patterns of notes, but you could repeat a rhythm. People really, really like repetition.

 

[Teddie]

Doc,

I like this. During this short piece, I imagined a visual story line of folks playing in the snow, with the imagined camera zooming in on different folks' emotional expressions on their face.

I wonder if I would have still invisioned this if you hadn't put the seasonal suggestion in my head. Interesting. Sleighbells would have put the seasonal thing right in my face.

I really like the open-ness of the sound. Almost as if many of the song entities were placed in certain points in a circular orbit around my hearing perspective.

 

[pglewis]

I like the variations you did on that one little motif... you know the one I'm talking about. But what?? No trademark drstawl triplets in this one?

 

[flattop]

polyphonic yes!!!!!yes i also like the variations, u know, i had to listen to this more than several times, u know,the more i listen and then think of teddie's description of your piece brings me to the thought of romanticism,,,,and putting emphisis on yer self-expression, individual style,and created visualization, i would lean into program music,which now brings me from the romatic era to... the twentieth century age of dissonance,,,,, the piece is always restating the motif in variations, capturing a slighlty dissonant edge...sprinkling snowflakes shall i dare say,,,,,i'm trying to figure out the form, is it binery or ternary,, gosh, u put my brain to work now!!!!! lol, wow feels goot to think about what i'm hearing again, i guess i owe u a thank-u lol
i really loved it, #17,,,,,,looking forward to listening to more of your little "ditty's" ...... peace )