Feb 2022 boatnames instrumental girl-with-sibelius
This piece was inspired by the boat name challenge. I started out trying to write something for the boat name Trouble Brewing, but I chose the wrong chord progression and didn't end up with enough turbulence in the piece. I find my pieces tend to have a mind of their own as I'm writing them. I often feel as though I'm following the music's will and it's out of my hands. Anyway, when my husband, Jean, told me about the boat name Freedom, and how he thought it suited my piece, I couldn't help but agree. I like this piece, although it's a bit meandering. I'll try to clean it up some, later this year.
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Virtual instruments: cello and piano
@siebass Mar 2022
Nice cello driving the whole piece, pushing the tempo along, tying everything together. Light piano over top playing back against it. A bit meandering, but isn't freedom also just so? Agree the progression is a bit too light and hopeful for trouble brewing, but freedom works great.
@liz561 Mar 2022
Hah-I did this challenge too-my boat was Dancing in the Storm. This sounds so classical and almost like a Bach Invention mixed with a sonata. I personally don't get "freedom" from it, but it's a really lovely piece!!
@andygetch Mar 2022
I love the cello melody in this and the piano chords and countermelody made for a beautiful listen. I like the meandering actually, and the spousal contribution :)
@pianoonthepatio Mar 2022
Slightly melancholic but uplifting! I feel like I'm getting my boat ready to set sail into the unknown and mentally preparing myself to not come back home for a while. Off to an adventure! I can relate to music having minds of their own once we start writing them. Sometimes it works for the better, and we can always shelf our original idea for another track right? :D Another nice track
@elainedimasi Mar 2022
Ah, what's freedom about more than the freedom to meander and to heck with anyone else's schedule or plans? This is nicely counterpointy and the cello patch has a very nice timbre.
If I could offer a bit of constructive opinion, and this is subjective, but the cello part never pauses for breath. If you revisit the piece at all, would it be interesting to see to its phrasing and give it a chance to pause the bow, and have some places in its part where it leaves space around itself? That might increase the expressiveness, to some ears.
@n1742 Mar 2022
great arrangement for cello and piano. it really evokes a peaceful pastoral mood for me and lovely diminuendo ending. I love orchestral and rock/pop/funk music so I'm trying to find ways of incorporating bits of both into each other. this time round I wanted to write a piece based on Handel's chord sequence that Johan Halvorsen used in his passacaglia. Gm Cm F Bb Eb Ab D7 Gm. I wanted it to start as a baroque piece and gradually change into a rock song at the end. perhaps it will be ready for FAWM 2023 (!) someone in FAWM last year put me onto Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra sounds - really good.
@chipwithrow Mar 2022
Cello and piano is a lovely virtual combo! And as with your other piece I listened to today, I'm struck by how immediate this feels and how personally it affects me - like I'm in the room with the performers. Beautiful!
@gm7 Mar 2022
I love that deep vibe you get with the cello and it 's the glue for the piano. Very well done. I actually listened to this twice....very calming.
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@sherrylynnlee Mar 2022
cello is probably my favorite instrument sound and I love the interplay with the piano here. The arpeggios make me picture a boat floating, gently bouncing up and down on the water. Nice work
@wolveerie Mar 2022
The call and response between the cello and main lines of the piano are very pleasant. the little tid bits of counterpoint on piano sprinkled in are lovely. Nice job :)
@danvaillancourt Mar 2022
Lovely interplay between the piano and cello. I can see peaceful images of the sun and sea when listening to this. Nice work!
@silvermachine Feb 2022
I can picture sailboats gliding along the river to this. Big slow ones represented by the cello and smaller faster ones by the piano.
My in laws moved to a riverside town on the Blackwater with a big quay years ago when my lads were young. We spent a lot of happy times there.
If I chose music for the memory, this would be it.
@guatecoop Feb 2022
I love that cello and I often connect strings in lower octaves with nautical things for some reason. Definitely no trouble brewing here that I can hear. Sounds very relaxing and peaceful, though very present. The combination of strings with piano really works well, as they never are competing for space in this and move together. Well done again!
@daveyboy103 Feb 2022
A very nice and soothing piece.
@jorh Feb 2022
I love that you used very classical, timeless instrumentation for the boat challenge - very reminiscent of what you might hear on a glamorous cruise in the early part of the 20th century. It was really beautiful and tranquil. I very much enjoyed listening, such that I listened twice
@hummingbear Feb 2022
I enjoyed listening to this, it was soft and peaceful. It struck me halfway through - which is the boat and which is the sea? If the depth of the cello more mimics the sea and the boat (piano) follows, then the cello could be a lot more turbulent and the piano could still "float" on top? Just a thought.
@wacha Feb 2022
This is a really beautiful and I think it fits the boat name challenge very well. There is a sense of adventure and wonder in the the song but is still feels rather serious. This is a very solid song!
@tunecat Feb 2022
Lovely classical sounding duo- eminently playable I would have thought. It’s ringing a bell somewhere but I can’t quite remember what it’s triggering a reminiscence of. Look forward to hearing more ( and when I get out of my electronic dance best phase I might get inspired to write something more on these kinds of lines)
@tamsnumber4 Feb 2022
Thank you so much for doing the Boat Name Challenge and it is so wonderful to hear your beautiful art again! Such a wonderful composition and so relaxing to listen to. Glad you got a song out of the challenge!!
@billgcaldwell Feb 2022
Very nice buildup. Love the contrast between the Piano and Cello(?). You write and perform some of the best pure music I hear in FAWM.
@driftwood1 Feb 2022
Nice composition. Freedom is definitely a better fit for a name/theme. It has a very triumphant feel. And I wouldn't say it meanders, it is just free to go it's own way.
@karlsburg25 Feb 2022
Ahhh lovely that is the way to go. Just let the music take you and i adore the movement in progressions here and defo has a boat out at sea feel. I love your melodies in this and there's been so many little things recently that are inspiring me to write more classical piano stuff (i say more i only ever done 2 ) and this is defo one of those. Thank you for this lovely. Woohoo
@nadine Feb 2022
This is such a soothing and beautiful arrangement. I like the interplay of piano and cello. It's like they're talking.
@nuj4x Feb 2022
This actually sounds like a boat to me! Like, picture this, right? So you're watching an old documentary, and archived footage of a once famous boat comes onto the screen, THIS is the music that's playing in the background!
It's old timey, very boaty, and has a great vibe with those keys in the background! I really dig it and I feel like that chord progression will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day! Great job!
@cindyrella Feb 2022
For whatever the reason, this is so lovely! I can imagine the boat easily. Good one!
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Some boats meander. Mine does (though my little schooner of years ago was arrow-straight always!) I particularly like your repeated sequence with the waves of cello and piano responding to each other.
@jaegerin Feb 2022
I love this! Great interplay of the different parts, and I can really see a boat in my mind's eye.
@zxcvbnm Feb 2022
Very relaxing, great start to FAWM 2022. More please
@dragondreams Feb 2022
The lovely movement of the cello certainly suggest waves. And the piano sails triumphantly across the rise and fall. I really like the call and response interplay between the instruments.
Wonderfully "pictorial" piece as always. :-)