Pentatonic Improvs?
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:27 am
I also call this "Slam Poetry" for piano...if anyone's city has a lotta coffie houses or if anyones involved with organizations with pianos inside their bulidings...does anyone in those places just come up and spontanaeously perform their own piece, just up out of nowhere? It's happened many times where I live and these performers usually can't read music and play by ear/memory, and their "origional" piece that they create during their impromptu performance has so many whole steps I could see them do this on the piano even if they use both white and black keys! I asked one of these performers and he had no idea what a pentatonic scale even was! I don't think it's a bad trend, actually. I just wished they wouldn't fear dissonants so much. It may be true that no one can come up with an origional opus or melody anymore, but "Twentieth Century" classical music made up for it in it's abstraction, and for me at least, in it's power. I'd love to hold events similar to slam poetry sessions where these performers, young or old, were playing their own "Rudepoema" and the audiece could be more impressed with how fast, and passionate/refined they were than the melody of the piece itself (people are getting more and more dissonant intolerant these days, I can't understand why myself...there's still lots of it in pop/underground/or experimental electronic music)! Sound interesting?
