Who said program music is rightfully dead? In fact, I love it when music evokes a scene, mirroring some living phenomenon. It already mirrors, amplifies and often juxtaposes our emotional and spiritual experiences.

In the case of my next piano meditation, the idea was simple: a storm.

In order to create the effect I played a series of arpeggios, often faster than my fingers could move, causing a few muffed notes and blurred passages that I felt the captured unevenness of a whirling rainstorm. At one point, I break the rhythm altogether, and go wild like uneven bands of storm.

To make the point even more I upped the tempo in Garageband just a bit.

I pretty happy with the result. I don’t often play to set a scene, but maybe this is my musical attempt at haiku, which often finds greater meaning in the simple observation of nature.

Enjoy the piece.

Piano Meditation 4

Flickr photo by OneEighteen

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