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in #music7 years ago

This may not be the coolest track,

but it is a true story. My favourite piece of music (From among many) is Clair De Lune by Debussy . It inspired my whole musical life and I began writing and producing music from the age of about 15.

My Grandad

was a classically trained pianist. Although he loved to play boogie woogie he would play haunting and complex pieces and this piece of music enchanted me as a child. I would sit underneath the piano as a small boy (where the acoustics go right through you) and wonder how could a piece of music be so sad and melancholic and yet so uplifting at the same time. It was a formal influence on my ambient techno, cinematic output and later straight piano sonatas of my own.

here's a piece inspired by my Grandad's piano teachings on soundcloud. I titled it Ivory Towers and it's a simple piano and bass piece in 3 parts. https://soundcloud.com/outerground/ivory-towers

It was their music

I later found out it was my Grandma's favourite and he would play if for her. They were together for more than 50 years and after my Grandad came back from World War 2 and various tank battles (he was a tank lieutenant who saw action in Egypt, Sicily, Greece), they never spent a night apart.


Richard & Audrey Fennah

It still haunts me and I listened to it today. It made me want to write some new music. There's an amazing piece of graphical scoring using the musical animation machine to this piece which helped explain the mechanics of how it's Supposed to be played. I don't have the co-ordination to play it but I learned how to write with help from various software over the years. I also produce animation and really like abstract work so this is kind of Nirvana for me. My own personal *Fanstasia

Here's Clair de Lune with the animation, piano played by Stephen Malinowski

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Very smooth sounding. I love piano and I'd like to learn some time. Thank you for sharing this with me and I appreciate the amount of effort you put into your comment as well!

-@drtarts

thanks @drtarts. I couldn't resist. I mean music is so much of who and what I am on the inside that I could name 100's of tracks /albums which really influenced me from The opening movement of Eroica by Beethoven to Brian Wilson's Smile, Abbey Road by John & Paul (I went to the same school as John), Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Voodoo Ray by A Guy Called Gerald, Man Parrish, Hip Hop be Bop, 6Feet High & Rising by the mighty DelaSoul.. I have to stop here. It's just great to see a post by someone so passionate about music that I nod my head reading it. I listen to John Coltrane in the car, to keep my head level when driving and listen to classic FM in the mornings. Music is so important, I often joke that Jazz is probably the most popular form of music in the Galaxy. (it probably is)

So far you're in the lead. 😁

cool. that's nice to know :) thanks

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Again, thank you for sharing your story.

thanks @drtarts. a really good thread and some excellent musical inspiration. I will be writing an article about my musical inspiration next week ! check it out. I'm following you

I appreciate it a ton! I will defiantly check it out! Thank you again!
I'll be sharing a lot more music stuff soon too just currently getting ready for our child to be born any week now!