DESCRIPTION:
"Eammon Andrews" (or is it "Eamonn Andrews" ) by Mike Ratledge of The Soft Machine

in the key of C dorian

Here is a demo run-through of my piano arrangement for an intro and/or outtro to Mike's composition
showcasing approaches to combining pitches in sequence and harmony
and how I put those building blocks together to create rich sounds.

I first recorded a MIDI sequence of me performing this.

I then made visual (vector) presentation slides that tried to match the music.



I came upon many of these harmonic devices , approaches
in 2007
I actually arrived at a few chord harmonic ideas by accident.
I was moving my fingers up and down the keyboard (taking these shapes of stacked, mostly, fourths - and moving them in parallel motion, up and down) and accidentally arrived at an augmented fourth (a.k.a. i.e. flatted-fifth, or Tritone) .
The sound of that reminds me of "A Night in Tunisia" by Dizzy Gillespie.

Another mistake which led to a (possibly?) good (-sounding) idea is:
My right hand accidentally was off-set a whole step (Major-2nd) too low, on top of the left hand.


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Thanks to Anthony Deaton for his lastest fixing up
re-packaging of the samples of a Steinway Grand piano from the University of Iowa and making those available in sforzando format.


I uploaded my video file :
EammonAndrews2016Feb5am take1 piano intro slides almost match.mkv