4-21-12
Improvisation 1 of 2 on my keyboard. You’ll hear some rustling in the background – I recorded this from the dining room of the co-op, and housemates are bustling in the kitchen!
Month: April 2012
This is the second part of the improvisation I did with my brother Eric in a practice room at Wellesley College after listening to the Alloy Orchestra in concert (Performance to Man with a Movie Camera). I think you can tell that some of the inspiration comes from what we just heard.
A little background: Eric and I grew up listening to our dad (Philip Carlsen) composing at the piano. We both studied piano while we were growing up, and we both loved to just sit at the instrument and improvise (I think we preferred this to practicing our classical music pieces!). Periodically, we would jam together. Now, after we’ve both graduated from college and are working as graphics/media designers, we still take every opportunity we can to make stuff up together.
In the first recording (see the previous post), I was playing bass and Eric was playing treble. For this recording, we switched. Enjoy!
This is the first of two recordings I made with my brother Eric after a performance at Wellesley College by the Alloy Orchestra (Performance to Man with a Movie Camera). He’s playing treble on this one, and I’m playing bass. We’re down in a practice room, playing on a baby grand.
On our way to this concert, we had been listening to a James Booker Pandora station in my car, and I think our first improv session was loosely inspired by that music. Our second session was heavily influenced by Alloy Orchestra’s performance. It was cool how that turned out – definitely not intentional!
At the home piano…
Friday night, 3-16-12
A sadly truncated post. I tried to record this one directly into tumblr on my phone, and the app cut me off after one minute! To come: a guest collaboration with my brother after we watched the Alloy Orchestra perform to “Man with a Movie Camera” at Wellesley College. I should have this up by the end of the week! Stay tuned…