Friday, January 30, 2026

tiny waves 260130 improvisation 即興 小波

 

Digital Piano: KAWAI CA9500GP. 442hz, Loudness

Home Recording: ZOOM h1nvp 48k 16bit wav



I used white keys only.

Fa So Do Re ...  Fa So Fa So

I didn't intend anything.  Fa Lydian?



子どもの頃の練習曲、長調・短調以外もあったら、楽しかったかもしれない。


Artwork
https://pixabay.com/photos/beach-sea-ocean-atlantic-vacation-4707447/


Monday, January 19, 2026

Chopin: Nocturne ショパン ノクターン

 No. 4


Digital Piano: KAWAI CA9500GP. 442hz, Loudness
Home Recording: ZOOM h1nvp 48k 16bit wav


I turned the pages of Chopin Nocturnes score and played pieces a little.  
I decided to play No.4.  I was drawn to the contrast of the major part and the minor part. 


light,  humming, skip, 
joy?
quit angry?

dirty, distorted (?) notes, chord, instance, 

vortex?

transmutation?

together for instance




Artwork
https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88-OQfuugXSfH0



(2026.01.28 Rec.)
No.10



I read that Chopin's Nocturne No.4 and No.10 are featured in "Les Sylphides".

I subded "agitato" written in the score, and forcused on changes in tone and gradation.

I felt that this piece was a kind of etude while practicing.  However, I liked it gradually.


shift: chromatic
shift: right and left hands
rythm changes

m6 
m3
V

V 7,1 / I 1 

♭9 / 3    6 but

♭5 / 1 -> 5 / 5 

12/8

5:3

not move fingers and hands as possible

(physical than emotional)


something was destroyed or discarded

hope,  


Artwork
https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88-OQfuugXSfH0



(2026.01.29 Rec.)
No.18


I'm planning to play a nocturne in E Major of another composer.  
So I decided to play this Nocturne in E Major by Chopin.

This piece was composed 180 years ago.  I'm unfamiliar with astrology, but I've heard that planetary alignments of 1846 and 2026 are rare similarity, signaling a time of great change. 



practiced in various moods:
alone, despair, 
humming, spring wind,
water drops, surcase of water, deep in the sea
accompaniment of dance of nobility
in a night bar
in a brilliant hall
in a cathedral
in a forest

switched tones on digital piano: 
organ (continue tones), 
harpsichord (non-legato tones), 
Jazz piano (backbeat),  


not move fingers and hands as possible

Si-So, cross

physical than emotional

Artwork
https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88-OQfuugXSfH0

たまにショパンを弾いている。
たまにはちゃんと録音してみようと思い、ノクターンから選ぶことにした。
練習・弾いているうちに、今まではわかっていなかった手指体の動かし方を知ったと思う。
Artworkは、同じ写真の下の方、真ん中の辺り、上の方をつけた。


Saturday, January 10, 2026

Oesten: Dolly's Dreaming and Awakening オースチン:人形の夢と目覚め



Digital Piano: KAWAI CA9500GP (442Hz, Loudness) 

Home Recording: ZOOM H1n-VP (48kHz 16-bit WAV) 



This is one of pieces which I wanted to play and practiced in my childhood.  


This time, I changed sounds for parts. 

Cradle Song: Concert Piano 1 <- the usual sound

Dolly's Dream: Crystal Piano 1

Dolly Awakes: Pop Piano 1

Dolly Dances: Celesta

Ending: Studio Piano 1



I recorded pieces from Faure's Dolly Suite in  last December.

https://pulchraflow.blogspot.com/2024/02/faure-lullaby-from-dolly-op56.html

A new year has begun.   'dolly' has awakened? 



artwork
https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E8%B5%A4%E3%81%A8%E9%BB%84%E8%89%B2%E3%81%AE%E6%98%9F%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-E7qI_Jqv4Dw

Friday, January 9, 2026

260109 improvisation, just waves, 即興




Digital Piano: KAWAI CA9500GP. 442hz, Loudness

Home Recording: ZOOM h1nvp 48k 16bit wav



An idea of title "what is behind the brightness, just patterns" occurred to me while listening the improvisation.  

However, I changed the title.    


The original improvisation was over 10 minutes.  I have cut the first 21 seconds.  


Fa Mi Do

Flat keys, B♭ etc.



artwork
https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E5%A4%9C%E9%96%93%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%97%E5%B1%B1%E8%84%88%E8%BF%91%E3%81%8F%E3%81%AE%E7%A9%8F%E3%82%84%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E6%B0%B4%E5%9F%9F-2KXEb_8G5vo

Saturday, December 6, 2025

Toward, 251206 improvisation (single and double-tracking) 即興 どこかへ 二重録音を途中から使って

 


Recently I recorded Faure's Dolly suite for four-hands by double-recording.  


I improvised using the same method.  

First, I played and recorded on my electric piano.  

Cm and so on.

Then, I played the recording once, and after that I played improvisation while listening to the recording, and continued playing after the recording.

Black flat keys, clusters, D♭ and so on.

It brought back memories of when I had played in a small free jazz band on weekends in a tiny live house.  


These past few days I slightly practiced Vierne Nocturne, Ravel Ma mère l’Oye and so on.


The title is Beyond, Dokoka-he, but it doesn't carry much meaning...  



最近、連弾曲を、自分の録音(左側奏者)を聴きながら、弾く(右側奏者)ということをしていた。ちょっと神経を使う。

なので、てきとーに弾いてみる時にも、二重録音してみようかと思った。



artwork
https://pixabay.com/photos/throw-stone-colorful-night-summer-6781567/

Monday, November 10, 2025

Louis Vierne: Suite bourguignonne, Op.17, ルイ・ヴィエルヌ ブルゴーニュ組曲

 I asked an AI web servece for piano pieces from the time Debussy was living that I didn't know.  Based on the results, I read music sheets on IMSLP.  I thought I might like pieces by Vierne, downloaded his music books, and played them.  

I decided to perform the work "Suite bourguignonne".  I think the work is brighter than other works of him.  


Also, I decided to perform the work "Silhouettes d'enfants, Op.43".  I recorded it first. 


I thought that I heard this music "Suite bourguignonne" before, but I realize I hadn't truly listened to it.


I found that some notes and sounds were unfamiliar to me.   



I've not been to Bourguignonne.



1.Aubade 

E A, B

La Mi Si #Fa #Do #So #Re ?


7th


the last, E



bright, clear, joy, 

calm


practice: played each tone of double-note accompaniment with both hands, played the double-note accompaniment with non-legato with the hand, played left-hand octave part first and played right-hand part over it, etc.


Since I think that loud dynamics like ff, fff cannot be achieved on my electric piano, so I considered how to play the parts to sound as if they were ff, fff.

I think that the una corda pedal doesn't produce good sound and it sounds rather blurry on my electric piano.  I refrained from using it for this piece.  



2.Idylle 

Fa


practice: played the left-hand part with both hands, etc.


No.3 Divertissement

Once I stopped practicing this piece.  But I found I still remembered it.  So I decided to record it.


Note patterns and sounds of this piece were unfamiliar to me.  I practiced it in various ways.  


I had been playing a left-hand triplet and 8th note, arpeggio as a single chord, trying to grasp it all at once.   However, that put a strain on my left hand, especially beyond an octave.  So I played arpeggios as arpeggios.


I used una corda as indicated, though I feel that it doesn't produce good sound on my electric piano.



diminished unison, third, etc. 

7th


interval, 

pleasant, amusing, 


streaming


light



No.4 Légende bourguignonne


. 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 ...

1 2 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 ...


Im  /V

I7 V7


I imagined something more general - legend, time, space, long ago and so on.

I used una corda as designated, though I feel it doesn't produce good sound on my electric piano.


No.5 A l'Angelus du Soir


#Do


I've never heard the Angelus.  

But I've heard temple bells, or ringings before prayers at shrines.


I used cathedral reverb on my electric piano.







6.Danse rustique


+5, whole tones



practice: played the left-hand part with both hands,  recorded the left-hand part and played the right-hand while listening to the recording,  used various sounds to create images, etc.


I think that the una corda pedal doesn't produce good sound and it sounds rather blurry on my electric piano.  I refrained from using it for this piece.  



7.Clair de Lune


piano and vocal?  violin?


"The moon is beautiful" ??

generally, night sky and the moon?

"Kaguya-hime"?


practice: played the tones other than the melody with both hands, etc.


continued the melody with fingers as much as possible

played the arpeggio with non-legato touch even under slurs,due to electric piano's sounds





初めに、全曲弾いてみた。

次に、始めの4曲を主に練習した。

それから、後半の3曲を主に練習した。

特に速い曲は、3曲目は出だしから馴染みのない感じだったので、譜面をみながら弾けるようにして、それから、譜面を見ていると遅いので、覚えるようにした。6曲目は意外と覚えやすかった。

練習してある程度弾けるようになったが、真ん中の3曲は録音しないことにした。

最初の2曲と最後の2曲を録音してアップロードした。

そのあと、何気なく3曲目を弾いてみたら覚えていた。そこで、真ん中の3曲も録音することにした。

それぞれ、メトロノームや、ノン・レガートで音を確認して整理しながら弾きなおした。

それから、録音した。自由に弾くことにした。

そのあとで、最初の2曲を弾いてみたら、前よりも滑らかに弾けるような気がした。
なので、録音しなおした。また、artworkも選びなおした。



artwork

No.1

https://pixabay.com/photos/mountains-sunrise-fall-fog-trees-7591326/


No.2

https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E7%B7%91%E3%81%AE%E8%91%89%E3%81%8C%E6%97%A5%E5%85%89%E6%B5%B4%E3%82%92%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99-u_eNNSxbSYg


No.3  Divertissement

https://pixabay.com/photos/leaves-stream-water-rocks-stones-5353592/


No.4  Légende bourguignonne

https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E6%9C%A8%E3%80%85%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%9A%E3%81%84%E6%A3%AE%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%AD%E3%81%AE%E6%9C%AA%E8%88%97%E8%A3%85%E3%81%AE%E5%B0%8F%E9%81%93-QrUE21_oKBU


No.5  A l'Angelus du Soir

https://pixabay.com/photos/cranes-birds-migratory-birds-9858983/


No.6

https://pixabay.com/photos/heaven-stars-moon-venus-universe-5114501/


No.7

https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E9%81%A0%E3%81%8F%E3%81%AB%E6%9C%88%E3%82%92%E6%9C%9B%E3%82%80%E3%83%94%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%81%A8%E9%9D%92%E3%81%AE%E7%A9%BA-iNy3n41Erik




Friday, October 17, 2025

251017 improvisation Kanata-from♭Mi 即興 彼方 ♭ミから

 

the famous start part of Beethoven Symphony No. 5


♭Mi

=#Re, the famous start part of Listz La Campanella 


I'm practicing works of Louis Vierne.  



artwork

https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E6%B5%B7%E3%81%AE%E7%9C%9F%E3%82%93%E4%B8%AD%E3%81%AB%E6%B5%AE%E3%81%8B%E3%81%B6%E4%B8%80%E9%9A%BB%E3%81%AE%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88-pgo30Z3rlSY