[LAU] Piano Zero

[Ken Restivo]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 07:35:36AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Variations for solo sequenced piano :
> 
>     https://soundcloud.com/davephillips69/piano-zero
> 
> A better-sounding FLAC-encoded version is also available :
> 
>     http://linux-sound.org/audio/PianoZero.flac
> 
> This piece is a through-composed set of variations on an 8-note
> theme. It's 32+ minutes long, not strictly tonal but not 12-tone
> either. Probably not easy listening, so feel free to skip it if your
> tastes tend more towards Yanni than to Cecil Taylor.
> 
> It's not currently wholly playable by a soloist. It's also not
> completely polished, this version is a second draft uploaded for
> comments. Notation to follow sometime next year.
> 

This is a great peice!

If you're looking for comments, I'd say use a better piano sample, something that sounds more like a real piano and less like a digital sample. And with good stereo panning. Also place it in a  room instead of a digital reverb, maybe in a convolution of a concert hall (I like the Pori samples). And I also think it'd be improved a lot by adding velocity! Dynamics. Nothing sounds more like digital sampling than all the notes at constant velocity. It's also wearying to listen to without dynNAMics, knowwhatI'msayin?

With that, I think it'd sound like an actual performance.

Ruth, after all, is sleeping.

-ken