Impromptu No. 1 by Alex Iannone

Impromptu No. 1
By: Alex Iannone
Performed by: Me

Alex Iannone is a student of mine. We began lessons together at the end of January 2010. After 6 weeks, I had him do an improvisation within some boundaries I'd set for him. It was wonderful.

I recorded the improvisation, and spent some time taking what he'd created and adjusting it to fit time and tempo so that I could turn it into sheet music.

His live version has all of his own emotion and passion in it and I'll leave that recording to him - this is my "studio" version based on his improvisation. I'm working on finishing the sheet music to it now.

Alex is inspired by the likes of Philip Glass, Brian Eno, and Harold Budd.

His job required intense concentration and dexterous hands (he operates machinery inside your heart - he calls himself a Heart Plumber) - the meditative and trance-like qualities of minimalist and ambient music help him relax, and the style really comes out in his own music.

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[AmericanPianist]

@Dave2bu I'll pass that along to Alex, thanks! I was pretty impressed with his result, having never touched a piano 6 weeks prior to improvising this.

[Dave2bu]

pretty good improv!

[AmericanPianist]

@otacon7522 Thanks! It sounds a bit strange, something must have happened during the video rendering. Oh well. I appreciate your comment, I'll pass it on to the composer as well!

[otacon7522]

This was really relaxing and beautiful ^.^