Greetings from the North of Europe

Florestan

New member
Welcome. Lot of music at your link. I am mostly into opera but sampled a couple of the tracks and it sounds great.
 

wljmrbill

Member
Welcome to the forums. Hope you enjoy your time spend here. Many areas of interests and a few of us also like Opera.
 

Kjelle

New member
Welcome. Lot of music at your link. I am mostly into opera but sampled a couple of the tracks and it sounds great.
Thank you.
I have some choir/solo voice music on my soundcloud account, such as Ceremony, Fraternal Twin Birth and String of Life. The voices are Midi productions.
 

John Watt

Member
Kjelle! Winterland? My ancestors were the northern islanders,
Sons and Daughters of the Gael, who speak Gaelic.
Ga means go, gae means to go, and gael means of the gone.
I don't mind being called either Scottish or Canadian.

It's too bad that the protocols of logging in to comment on Soundcloud,
are so invasive and insistent, not letting me log in to type on your page.

If you don't mind me saying, I don't see you as a Soundcloud user.
I think of musicians who upload their stuff to listen to online, and for free,
as being musical selfies, using technology to create, duplicate and display.
But you are a real composer, a very nice composer, a big surprise.

I looked around a little, but I couldn't figure out what instrument, or instruments,
that you play.

Okay, I didn't finish a song, I finished a painting yesterday.
That might be used as a set piece for a Lake Erie opera.
I have to keep the opera theme going, seeing some Phantom tonight.

For me, there is a great duality here, what my painting goal was.
The most white area, the only white, is in the exact center of the panel.
All the waves and land details point or lead to this center.
The brightest yellow is there, with the strongest black and white contrast.

It's not easy, painting a big sky or big lake, and get a deep perspective.
In person, standing back, this really has an optical illusion, for stereo eyes.
The horizon is curved like a reverse fish-eye lens,
doing everything I can to create this perspective,
without using people, fences or hydro poles, or a boat and some birds,
so the human eye has an easy time with it.
Yes, this is just a sky, lake and shore, really, a painting about nothing.
But it gives you a claustrophobic experience, looking into it,
as the blurred and soft outer details close in, being darker,
and when locals say there aren't any bullrushes growing along Lake Erie,
I say, what would you rather see, bullrushes or hydro blades on the shore?
Beside, bullrushes do grow along Lake Erie, the biggest, around Turkey Point.

Please, look at the black of the distant peninsula, looking totally dark,
and look at the black at the base of the bullrushes, and the side shore.
That looks greyer, softer, maybe dusty, but it's the same black out of the bottle.
That's fooling your eyes here, not the perspective.
Look to the left, looking across the water to the tip of the peninsula,
and you have your reflections and perspective,
but then look up along the right, leading around to the focal point,
another perspective, where it only gets darker and smaller.
That's where your eyes naturally want to go, looking to see where you are,
until you look into the light, after the sun has set, and the dark closes in.


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Kjelle

New member
Thank you John for the compliments and for this remarkable and unique post containing music, poetry and painting art. With such a beautiful painting I feel really welcome to this forum.
I play mainly the piano which is also connected to my computer, which gives infinite possibilities.

Best wishes
 

John Watt

Member
Kjelle, you of the younger generation, are so lucky.
You got playing keyboards, when electric guitars and synthesizers were how I grew up.

When I saw my first Korg "Wave Station" synth, I knew my wild guitar days were soon over.
Nobody was going to pay me to be their online guitarist, and no-one ever has.
With modern keyboards, you can do it all.

You don't have to thank me for my compliments.
I was just trying hard to come up to your musical standards,
when I know I never will.
I think of myself as an electric-symphonic player, an electric guitar virtuoso,
and I have my inventive guitar to use for that, more than just nice for me.
I'll save that for later, because, while it's an acoustic phenomena,
it's still just for an electric guitar.

Ever since I was in grade eight, I've played piano for fun.
I only know Cm, but I can riff away, plus hitting some bass notes, all day.
Not knowing any songs frees me up in ways playing guitar, by myself, can't.

One of the admins here must like the painting too,
putting it up as big as possible without having to click it on.
I think only log-in users can click the enlargements, so this is odd.
It turns me on, just looking at it.

Since I can't access Soundcloud, do you have any YouTube videos.
If you said John, if you listen to me I have to listen to you,
music being the currency here, okay, I'll make a quickie with an acoustic.
I've been working on "Misty" by Erroll Garner, trying a walking, Hammond B3 bass line.

I just got this acoustic so I don't have to plug in to try out songs and singing.
I'm not an acoustic guitar player. I never played on onstage,
and I never ever sat onstage, and am known for dancing around, making moves.
Scottish musicians like to think they're skulking around while they play,
unless the twirling becomes the skirlin'a the pipes.

I'm still getting off on your compliment, but, you must have only seen me.
There is a big members art gallery here, but I snuck one in on you.
It's a good thing you like it.

I've been listening to the as-yet-untitled Frederik Magle,
seeing favorite new pieces called "dark piano" and "dark organ",
saying they inspired this "dark painting".
Are you into that? It's new for me, and I'm not sure of the difference.
 
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