solo guitar improvisation

For anyone who might be interested, I've uploaded two solo guitar
improvisations to:

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/daniel_anthony_stearns

To my way of thinking, this is music making in one of its more basic
and honest forms--how one shapes new ideas and motifs into narratives
with forward motion in real time on an instrument.

In stark contrast to the recent Shankar thread, I gravitated towards
tonal ambiguity and outright dissonances from a very early age, and I
still often listen to Schoenberg's piano music to relax.

The harmonic language of these pieces is for the most part that of
free atonalism, but the gestures are for the most part those of jazz.
Both of these are in the conventional tuning, but 12-tet still
interests me and I still find arresting places in it that I haven't
been before.

Special thanks to Jon Szanto for converting these to mp3s for me, I
appreciate it Jon!

take care,

--Dan Stearns

Dan, access to your briefcase has been disabled (or so it says)

Dante

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D.Stearns [mailto:STEARNS@CAPECOD.NET]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:43 PM
> To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [tuning] solo guitar improvisation
>
>
> For anyone who might be interested, I've uploaded two solo guitar
> improvisations to:
>
> http://briefcase.yahoo.com/daniel_anthony_stearns
>
> To my way of thinking, this is music making in one of its more basic
> and honest forms--how one shapes new ideas and motifs into narratives
> with forward motion in real time on an instrument.
>
> In stark contrast to the recent Shankar thread, I gravitated towards
> tonal ambiguity and outright dissonances from a very early age, and I
> still often listen to Schoenberg's piano music to relax.
>
> The harmonic language of these pieces is for the most part that of
> free atonalism, but the gestures are for the most part those of jazz.
> Both of these are in the conventional tuning, but 12-tet still
> interests me and I still find arresting places in it that I haven't
> been before.
>
> Special thanks to Jon Szanto for converting these to mp3s for me, I
> appreciate it Jon!
>
>
> take care,
>
> --Dan Stearns
>
>
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--- In tuning@y..., "Dante Rosati" <dante.interport@r...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_33314.html#33315

> Dan, access to your briefcase has been disabled (or so it says)
>
> Dante
>

It did that 2 me 2...

JP