Two Birds on a Cherry Branch - An improvisation on a painting by @camilla
I love the paintings of @camilla. They are vibrant and dance. We are so lucky to have artists like @camilla who share their creations with us.
As I looked at her painting, "Two Birds on a Cherry Branch" I could imagine the birds flittering through the air on music. Small, swaying and singing along.
I have created a short musical improvisation on this beautiful painting. I hope you enjoy it.
I take no credit for @camilla 's beautiful painting. My music is just a reaction to seeing the work. Much like one would write a story after viewing the "David" statue or paint a still-life after coming home from seeing Shakespear.
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Cheers,
BuckyDurddle
hmm...I would have expected the notes to be higher and a bit of finger plucking as a form of imitative harmony. They are only tiny birds after all, jumping from twig to twig...it was a lovely melody, nonetheless, but if I may add another observation, too much teacher talk :) Hope you don't mind shadows amidst the light, but we can't have pure accolades all the time, can we?
I absolutely agree john, all pats on the back cant help to improve.
John, my reason for staying in the lower register was a calculated one. It is all about imitation versus interpretation. The music has elements of imitation but not much. For example, the repeating trill in the B is the bird. I keep coming back to the home base much like the bird would do. The melody line i created was more the path of the bird as it flies around a garden. The feeling one would have turning to watch the line of flight. Twists and turns some times high sometimes low. But returning from time to time to the B and fluttering. I never want to fall into the trap of trying to literally imitate images in sound. Hint at it? Yes. Ive always tried to do this. So when considering a register for a bird my first thought would be bass, then work up from there to a point where the listener will get it but not so literally that it requires no consideration.
John i really appreciate your questions. This is a conversation i love to have with creative friends.
Thanks for listening
Bucky
that's an excellent answer, Bucky, and explains it from within the constraints of your art. Now, I can appreciate even more what you do :)
:) Thanks John. Stravinsky once said, "True art can only come from limitation." Notice that I don't use any other instruments in Steemit? No audio effects. Simple recordings in one take. I am forcing myself to work in a very rigid box.... and I love it! It forces me to refine the tools I have at hand and only those tools. It is not easy sometimes, but it keeps me VERY honest with my art. There is a time and a place for all those other things. For me, I have chosen that Steemit will NOT be that place. Steemit will be a place of limitation.
I like that. I believe that too. Frost said that without boundaries art is like playing tennis with the net down. Well, when i play tennis, that's how I play :)
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That was wonderful! And a great collaboration. Tip!
Thank you for the tip @melinda010100 Much appreciated :)
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Very nostalgic... well done ;) @buckydurddle
Thanks @greensky Thanks for listening
Hey Bucky, congrats on getting picked up in @ocd. You were curated in issue #71. That's probably the uptick you were mentioning last night!
Thanks @jasonbu. I did not know about the @ocd coverage. I am still very green to all this :)
Hi @buckydurddle! @melinda010100 is sending you 0.1 SBD tip and @tipU upvote
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@tipU - send tips by writing tip! in the comment, get share of the profit :)I checked out the painting and I feel you nailed it! I'm up to date with my daily Bucky... Congrats on winning map, I went to vote yesterday, so happy it was not in vain. Also entering your page I saw my ugly mug in there so thanks for the resteem. Back story here: once a guitar teacher in highschool threw me out of the class saying you are a trouble maker (true) you have no talent and you are never gonna be good (false)... 30 years later I have a music teacher resteeming my shit, so yeahh full circle completed!
Haha glad you like this one. I really liked making it. Also, glad you are caught up :)
Thank you so much for the vote. I am very happy that won it. Now I have some serious curating to get done ;)
Cheers,
Bucky
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wow, so beautiful improvisation!!!! Thanks for share ^_^
Thank you for listening @silviabeneforti. And thank you for your kind words.