*Manière de Commencement* [Satie]

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fr. Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poir. Also used in the play Le Fils des étoiles. Some call it the seventh Gnossienne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euUgmiMs5Ak

- Adaptation: Civil
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Just saw this one, and listened at really low volume. I'll give this another go tomorrow, but I liked what I heard.

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there are things in this I know my father would get excited about, I'd love to see his face and his comical show of surprise when thrilled...

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Very good. I like the volume contrasts in here, and the way you sometimes play "across" the rhythm. This sounds really good as well. Nice mix. :tu:

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Both my wife and I heard this piece...love the way you get things moving in here!!

I have heard it before but this arrangement gives it kick! :love:
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thanks gents.

seismic1 wrote:the way you sometimes play "across" the rhythm.
I do love to do that. Where there are only the 2 pianos and one takes an impromptu, that one crosses the bar getting into its own funky aroma but the pulse remains *in stride*... later the cable cars cross the pulse inside the bar reflecting that somewhat. I had a general plan of the two bands following that, crossing the time rather radically but it was too involved, too complex.

the piano renditions I have heard really go for some rubato. I retain a touch of that (since there are dramatic gestures that suggest a kind of imperative, or gravitas, perhaps ironically knowing Satie) but the goal was to maintain a groove. in one case I formed it into a kind of 9:4 and the last iteration of that one motif straight 7:4. a lot of classical players do not appear to care about where ONE is after a point and the time is too cute by half, these histrionic gestures of pushmepullyou never did a lot for me. it's like a pulse is declassé or something. here the accompaniment is 'stride' basically and the basis is in folk musics. I don't agree that the approach to Chopin or something is apt for it.

there are ways to say the thing but not be daft about it.

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jancivil wrote:fr. Trois Morceaux en Forme De Poir. Also used in the play Le Fils des étoiles. Some call it the seventh Gnossienne.

Maniere de Commencement

[Adaptation: Civil]
Very subtle ans interesting work to my ear, nothing easy here...

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great imaginative piece of work!

Enjoyed it a lot.

just one observation: The percs are over-acting sometimes, but this was just a little dumb nitpicking, please forgive
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Awesome version with fabulous take on it. Love the unexpectedness of it! :)
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Hey thanks. November 2011; I had a couple irons in the fire then.

I recently remixed this one when I found the perfect video, which synced up like this almost doing nothing. It's not very different, I used different reverb basically.

minus redundant YT link
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:love: :love:

Great video to go with that...
Barry
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing

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Great to hear this again, and with the video too. They are a good fit :tu:

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Thanks, guys

there's something to be said about the drier 2012 mix, though I can only download the mp3 off of official.fm at this point. :(

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Officially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euUgmiMs5Ak

Video: L'iris fantastique, directed by Segundo de Chomón, for Pathé Frères, 1912 (Public Domain).

very slightly edited for the purpose

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Fun textures/arrangement and a nice video to top it off. :tu:

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