Improvisations on The Ledge

Improvisations on The Ledge

By PETER SALTZMANEducationArtsPerforming Arts
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Improvisations on The Ledge episodes

  • Everything's Related to Everything Else (Again)

    After I finished recording this episode, I remembered that I had already done one early laster season on the same subject. Thus the "again". I didn't go back and listen to that because I gotta believe this one's completely different. Or is it?

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    25 min
  • The Seinfeld Episode...Or How to Make Music Out of Nothing

    I was watching Jerry Seinfeld's new standup release on Netflix the other night and it put me in the mind of nothing. Specifically, how we build music out of essentially meaningless sound events that end up adding up to...something?

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    16 min
  • S2-E1: CoVidious Improvisations on Covert Thoughts

    Season Two is finally here but it’s not at all was I was planning. Befitting the title of the podcast, Improvisations on the Ledge, in fact, resists any serious planning. And yet, for this premiere episode of season two, I can’t avoid the elephant in the world-sized room: CoVid-19. The central theme of this episode, then, is how the crisis changes the way we go about making art—if at all.

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    31 min
  • Season Two Trailer/Teaser

    It's been a LONG wait, but season two is just about ready to launch. With an exciting new format and several new features, it will be well worth the wait!

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    3 min
  • #28: A Variation on Theme and Variations

    What if I came up with a theme in the morning, then improvised variations throughout the day? What would that add up to? Call it a variation on the theme and variations idea, but in the form of a diary of a single day in the life of Peter Saltzman.

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    34 min
  • "#27: What Not to Think About When Improvising-Featuring Jean-Michel Pilc"

    Do you ever think about what you’re thinking about? Of course, you do, and I often think about what I’m thinking about when improvising. But when I pose this question to the great French pianist-composer Jean-Michel Pilc in this episode, his answer is sort of along the lines of...a kind of nothing. Sort of.

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    1 hr 14 min
  • "#26: The Improvised Sonata"

    For years I’ve had this thought that I should be able to improvise a full 4-movement piano sonata. Is this just another example of me being completely out of touch with my times? Well yes. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.

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    40 min
  • IOTL Short #7: Mid-Afternoon Nocturne

    In the interests of busting yet another musical myth, I improvise a nocturne in the afternoon. At least it’s relatively dark in its sweetness.

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    7 min
  • IOTL Short #6: And A Plane Flew By

    ...Or how musical order insists on materializing out of seemingly random occurrences...​

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    9 min

About Improvisations on The Ledge

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In "Improvisations on the Ledge," award-winning composer-pianist Peter Saltzman searches for universal truths by stumbling upon them—both with words and music. The basic premise is simple: he…