innsjø - an insight into the creative process
innsjø - an insight into the creative process of improvisation.
The new single, a piano solo will be released on the 12th September 2022. It was originally recorded with a video camera recorder around this time last year, in a practice room at my University in Huddersfield. I was working with Huddersfield based musical talent Adenico, and we decided to share with each other music that we were doing, performing to each other to the grand piano in the room. He had shown me a piece he written for Piano and vocals, but what really caught my attention is how he used the upper range of the grand piano to add 'twinkling' embellishments to his song. After he finished performing (he's a fantastic singer by the way), I then wanted to do an improvisation and try incorporate some of these elements into what I was about to do. This is what you hear in this music. This is why I began the piece by starting on the upper pitches of the instrument.
Although this whole result is improvised, you may notice techniques I used to make the music sound like a structured piece of music. It is important when improvising to refer back to common motifs that can connect seemingly independent sections together. One important motif in this improvisation is using the first four notes of the C minor scale. From its introduction two and a half minutes into the music, it repeats throughout, but put into different contexts. Take a listen for yourself and see if you can hear...
innsjø means 'lake' in Norweigan. Adenico suggested the piece seemed like a storm, a snow storm where the elements change as it documents a man's journey through rough terrain. Another friend suggested it seemed like the experience of a man on a boat sailing across a lake. This idea of elements and weather being represented through piano notes is a perspective that I really liked, and thought the name would be appropriate.
You can listen to the music here:
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