Blink


Listen Later

Blink is the first piece I sat down to try out for Uncomposed. It ended up being a pretty long one (over six minutes). The main point of interest for Blink was the sheer number of mistakes, er, opportunities that appeared. Right at 0:37, I missed the target with my left hand, which started off a whole different chord progression than what I was thinking I'd do. I'm not sure what I was trying to do at around 2:17, but I missed that too... and I like what the mistake became. The biggest mistake came right at what was to be the end of the song, bang on 3:00. The note was just so wrong that it was unsalvageable without just kicking the side of the song right in. So that's what happened - and it led in to a whole new part that I really quite like. There are a few ick moments too, like around 1:21 when the spirit of Richard Clayderman took over the piano for a brief instant. This was also one of a few songs that I recorded on a noisy, annoying Minidisc recorder before getting my stuff straight, so it's a little noisier than most of what you'll hear here. I think, if I was editing these down, I would have chopped out lots of this song, to make it a bit shorter and tighter. But that's against the rules. ;) Listen to Blink, or download it.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

By