"what did you think i said?"

jazz composition

"what did you think i said?" CG music video #92

"Emotion and Personality"

Well, I seem to be following a treasure map: the books I read, explain the music I write. A book which speaks of the very things I am thinking about, provides the title for this piece.

"Emotion and Personality"

Another Whole Tone Glimpse

For those following the whole tone figures, this one is very small, almost hidden in passing.

The second composition in the "Whole Tone Glimpses".

"Another Whole Tone Glimpse, CG music video#90"

David Bateman reviews "the objectivist press"

Re:David Bateman reviews the new music video "the objectivist pss"

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the dining room just looks so gorgeous in this with the perfect music - at the start the blurred effect gives the room and furnishings a lovely impressionist quality - like 'Monet at the Brick on a rainy afternoon' and the way you have coupled beautiful objects in your apartment (jewelry and figurines with photos and such) placing objects alongside the notion of objectivism, giving the narrative such gorgeous contrasting layers around the idea of object/objective, and the music becomes, at times, single objects dropping delicately yet with such strength & objectivity upon the surface of our lives the objectivist press 'objet's d'arts' or perhaps 'objectif d'arts'

whole tone glimpse #1

"whole tone glimpse #1 is a link to a composition using the whole tone scale. It gives a suspended feeling, connecting to the universe in a thoughtful way.

"the objectivist press" CG music video #88

here is the new composition

"the objectivist press"

the objectivist press

i'm not sure if "the objectivist press", the original one, still exists, but I am posting a sequence of music that i am calling "the objectivist press", because of reading certain poets. probably posting it tonight.

Charnie Schoenberg meets Charnie Laura Nyro

In recent months there has been a progression in the composing, a deepening of some of the modern harmonies, blended with the the lounge playing styles I have been performing since the 1970's. This is a characteristic of my jazz writing that I wish to take further. Charnie Schoenberg meets Charnie Laura Nyro. Both from piece to piece, and within pieces. I began to really notice this over the past year, for example in "What I am Doing is What is Happening to Me" (composition). I just noticed that when I posted this on Feb 2, I described it as "an openly therapeutic meditation on the realization of the effect of the composer's music on herself".

The Science of Harmony

Harmony is the subject of composition. Harmony is a science, so is rhythm, rhythm is a part of harmony. (Vibration). A musician is a scientist of harmony. Feeling the harmonies growing within our inner hearing, is what commands our emotion, not the other way round. If we do not tend to the nurturence of our harmonic sense (and our harmonic knowledge), we impede the life of emotion. In a serious musician, the need for developing the music comes first, and life follows from that.

redux

Older, we open to the subjective stream differently. This is what I am only beginning to really appreciate.

an idea

Abstraction is the core of meaning.

(CG)

"Perception and Memory"

"...there is no perception which is not full of memories" (Henri Bergson, Matière et mémoire)

"...il n'y a pas de perception qui ne soit imprégnée de souvenirs."

this phrase of Bergson's captures the mood of the jazz piano in this composition.

In Canada

In Canada the late afternoon is very beautiful. The sun stretches across rivers, and the trees on the other side of rivers, or comes into apartment buildings, reflected off other apartment buildings. It is a quiet time, once we are home, or sometimes even when we are working late, and are on break. We calm down, either get warm, or cool off, depending on the season. It is a time when we are especially grateful for those we love. In Canada the late afternoon is very beautiful.

Going amongst different parts of the personality.

Am finding ways of going amongst various schools of modern jazz voicings, within my own playing. Each calls up a different mindset, and a different kind of pull on the emotions. Note yesterday's "Critique".