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Piano & Tabla
After hearing @linearlineman ’s piano and tabla pieces I thought I should try something like that. Both piano and tabla are percussive instruments with tonal qualities and so seem good with each other. Plus I like the “fusion”.
For the past 4-5 years I’ve begun all of my music/sound ideas with the iPad. It’s an essential sketchpad for me - so many ways to generate ideas. In this case I used several instances of Aphelian while improvising chord progressions. I record the midi and do some weeding and pruning in Xequence but then I usually export the midi to my desktop where I can work on arranging; embellishing. The desktop for me just makes midi editing easier. Easier to see and fine-tune the notes. I’ve got a DAW that I like and I can use the sounds there too. The instrument for this is the Pianoteq Steinway Model D. I really like the Pianoteq pianos and if they ever get around to putting it on iOS I’ll get it for sure.
So it’s a hybrid of iOS and desktop; conceived on iOS and finalized on my Mac.
Comments
@Stochastically, that is a fine track. The piano sounds excellent and excellent improvising. Good ending, too. I hope @McD gives this a listen. You appear to have a classical piano background. Is that correct? I look forward to hearing more from you. You might think of adding a synth pad to this.
Btw, I used Indian Drummer again on Bad Bansuri with the SWAM Bass Flute. Also a good combo.
You sent up the Bat Signal and I'm listening right now.
The timing is so perfectly crisp... MIDI enforces a clock like few human ensembles can match.
That Piano is so good: note choices and timbre... PianoTeq? Can't hardly wait to see an IOS product. I'll be good for $100's of purchases from there roster of instrument models.
Where's is that tabla coming from? Drumjam maybe?
I'll bet this could be MIDI transferred to IOS and rendered with one of our better pianos and be pretty cool too.
Aphelian is the best MIDI generator app, IMHO. The guys have some really musical voodoo in their sequencing algorithms. I'm sure a lot of extra editing was done to pull this into the final form.
Excellent track... too bad you needed the desktop but hard to ignore the quality of the results.
What Desktop DAW is used here?
@McD care to venture on the classical roots of this? I’m thinking Satie Debussy… but that’s not quite right. I’m sure @Stochastically knows🧐😉
I didn't get a classical feeling but to force an association, I'd go with Igor Stravinki. The way it has an insistent 8th note pulse and moves freely between keys. NOTE: My association was the "Rite of Spring" orchestral ballet score which has some pulsing 8th note sections but I went shopping for a Stravinski Piano work and found this:
@McD, really? It strays a bit to something contemporary as it progresses but the beginning doesn’t fit anywhere else, IMO. we’ll have to hear with the OP says! Did you know I look like Stravinsky?
This has to be one of the best flexes on this forum, ever. 👏👏👏
Stravinsky wishes he had those cheekbones.
@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr haha, you got it, mate😉🥊😎
The piano sounds excellent and excellent improvising. Good ending, too. I hope @McD gives this a listen. You appear to have a classical piano background. Is that correct? I look forward to hearing more from you. You might think of adding a synth pad to this.
Thank you soo much for listening. Well after a certain point, classical became my main focus but as a child I was given accordian lessons ( which I hated ) But then later in life I bought an accordion again and played in a folk group. One thing that was ingrained in my brain from the accordion is the Circle of Fifths. (that's how the chord and bass keys are arranged) which became a very helpful kind of mental map for improvisation and compositions.
I listened to your "Bad Bansuri" and, aside from just liking it, I was impressed by the overall sound richness. My piano recording sounds a little thin now. I must do everything on ear pods or headphones. It might be giving me misleading impressions.
Thanks to you as well, @McD for listening. I'm sure everything I've ever listened to with attention has leaked into the stuff I do. But, on the other hand, I take it as a high complement if my influences aren't glaringly apparent.
Well, that's spot on! He even has the dark glasses.
How can anyone NOT be influenced by that guy?
Easy... they only listen to pop radio or whatever is the current mass media music for their world (Country, etc).
You have to be a music student or maybe into ballet to hear his music. Disney did base the dinosaur section of "Fantasia" on an edited version of "Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)". If that caught any young music students attention then they could get hooked.
I had a VW bug with a cassette player mounted under the seat and I played that Ballet music on a constant loop for some LA area commuting where I could go 30 miles is 90 minutes daily to school. The emotional roller coaster ride of that music seemed to take my mind off the insanity of grid locked freeway driving.
Did you know that he invented a device for making custom music paper...
https://www.antikeychop.com/stravigor#:~:text=U.S.,he named it the Stravigor.
But I think the greatest music radiates outward with a giant gravitational field. The influence ripples and makes an effect eventually on people who may not even know it. Maybe they only hear something that was influenced by someone who was influenced by someone else back up the chain.
Disney always turns everything into a caricature.
I can see it going with freeway driving; but on a constant loop?
Simple and efficient. He must have run out of manuscript at some point and wanted to get some ideas down.
I'd better add some more "humanizing" to it.
A nice thing about Pianoteq is that it comes with a number of piano models right off the bat. But you can buy others.
I used on my desktop the world instrument library from EastWest called Ra.
It's MOTU Digital Performer. I've used it for decades.
You're in good company:
It's a real good combination of instruments. I'll bet it would look and sound good live too.
agreed; but it might be hard to make a good balance. Or maybe if the piano was "prepared" in some way like one of those felt dampers on the strings maybe.
Since around 1988-89. Since the beginning of computers. So I guess that's like over 30 years? !! Can that be? Incredible!
Right! Because then they would be real instruments, in a real, material world, with physical constraints. I keep forgetting.
Ha! exactly the same for me.
I am listening on some very poor speakers on my office PC, so I'm missing a lot. I'll listen in headphones tonight. What I am hearing reminds me a bit of Vince Guaraldi. Very nice!