Donald Merand

🎵 Output before Input #88 (Take 3) - 2022.04.09

3-part series today.

This is the final take of 3. It’s quite different from the other takes (ultimately), but it also feels to me like the most interesting ideas of the improv started to take shape and get stated with more clarity here.

🎵 Output before Input #88 (Take 2) - 2022.04.09

3-part series today.

This was a second take after I flubbed the first one (see Take 1), and I really liked it. But I realized after I stopped playing that my computer had run out of battery somewhere in the middle. This is a partial recording…

🎵 Output before Input #88 (Take 1) - 2022.04.09

3-part series today.

I started with this recording, but I felt like I flubbed it too many times to share. I did another take and my computer ran out of battery right in the middle of the take :/ Since they’re all quite different I thought maybe it would be interesting to share them all as a window into the improvisation process.

🎵 Output before Input #87 - 2022.04.08

Sinister steps through silent streets.

🎵 Output before Input #86 - 2022.04.08

I don’t know why these pop melodies keep coming out. I must be feeling nostalgic.

🎵 Output before Input #85 - 2022.04.07

I awoke with a little minor-ninth embellishment in my head and built this groove from that.

🎵 Output before Input #84 - 2022.04.05

A bit of mischief today.

🎵 Output before Input #83 - 2022.04.04

Just a little comfortable pocket. Sometimes it’s nice to be in a comfortable pocket.

🎵 Output before Input #82 - 2022.04.03

Believe it or not, I was meditating on the pelvic floor and this riff was inspired by that.

🎵 Output before Input #81 - 2022.04.02

The major chords of a triumphant soul.