{"id":498,"date":"2015-03-16T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T00:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/chigo\/?p=200"},"modified":"2015-03-16T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T00:38:59","slug":"project-number-9-3162015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/project-number-9-3162015\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Number 9 (3\/16\/2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This track is unmixed and unmastered. It has accompanying vocals that are not on the recording. It is only instrumental.<\/p>\n


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\"0316151714\"<\/a>I have been writing and performing this song so often that it almost seems opaque to me. It started out in a series of recordings I was working on utilizing record samples inspired from our classwork. I picked up a Stravinsky record, Gregorian Chanting record and Shoenberg\/Beethoven record from Rainy Day in Olympia. This was the ninth song in a series of sixteen and counting. The exact sample is from the beginning of the Concerto in D. The piano I wrote is rooted in D major but spends most of its time in the minors surrounding it. It wasn’t until this afternoon that the piano was actually recorded into the song file.\"0316151713\"<\/a> This instrumental was used simultaneously with slight variations for two different performance collaborations. I practiced performing this song for two weeks with three different people; each version was equally as powerful and met with similar reception. \u00a0The first performance took place at Pig Bar in downtown Olympia with Ladexx. It was the only original in a series of three songs we performed and I used the Akai MPK49 to perform the piano live. The next morning I awoke and came into class to perform the piece for our quarters final performance workshop with Eli and Kimani. This time I decided to use the actual grand piano rather than a keyboard. The difference in key weight had an unexpected effect on my ability to play some of the softer parts audibly and stronger parts with restraint. For the first time I was able to contrast separate performances and instruments before writing a finalized version of instrumentation. The piece is still in development and is due to be performed in Eli’s future set lists as well as Wednesday March 18th at Pig Bar’s Open Mic. There is a recording of the original performance floating in cyberspace that I am trying to aggregate. I will post when I find it.