Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: July 28 2007, 21:58 |
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You ever had one of those ideas that sounded pretty cool when you thought about them, but when you tried to execute them, they seemed downright impossible? Yeah, so one day, I thought it would be pretty cool to write a piece for solo piano - in sonata form!! - and I already had some nifty themes floating in my head, most of them involving chromatic thirds and whatnot. To my surprise, I finished it very quickly, and it sounds... pretty decent. At least to me.
It's a heavily facetious piece, though. The sonata form is... slightly wretched, and there's little so-called tonality to be found. At times, the song is deliberately derailed just when it seems to gravitate towards something of a theme. The thing I had in mind here, basically, is a goofed-up, yet grim parody of "silent movie" soundtracks for scary films. Anyone who ever saw the cartoon "Little Robots" and knows the character Scary will understand what I mean. 
The piano is synthesized, as it should be obvious as soon as you hear the first notes. You might notice that some notes sound a little "delayed", as if they miss their cue. It's a problem with the piano samples, which I only fixed after I recorded that take. It's a low quality mono recording, but the good recording will come up when the whole album is ready.
Again: it's a FACETIOUS piece. 
(the song is now available on the album Big Robot, Little Robot. Check out the thread here.)
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