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Rain Is Good For My Mental Health

from 2 Smargaid Maerd by mr_mark_dollin

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Mary White College has three pianos; I had ample access to them to explore piano composition and improvisation. I was able to explore a fascination with the quietness and space that could be achieved with the piano, and I was developing a playing style that discards melodic intention in place of texture and mood construction. This can be as simple as just placing your hands on the keyboard and playing softly whatever notes you have landed on leaving space for them to ring out. I decided it would be great if I could live record one of these improvisations. So one wet night in 2003 I took all my computer equipment down to MWC’s acoustically wonderful dining hall where the baby grand was located. Using only a very very cheap desktop condenser microphone it took ages to find a placement where the recording would not distort. After everything was settled, what you hear here is the second take. Up until the last repeated phrase (which is a thematic echo of “Way Out”) this is pure improvisation. It was something to be happy with, but it did not quite sit on its own just as a piece of piano melody. Keeping in theme with the weathery aspect of the rest of the album, I decided to record some storm rain and thunder from The Lighthouse window. A little more spatial processing to widen the sound and a building mix with the piano takes us into the rain and murk, onward to…

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from 2 Smargaid Maerd, released August 1, 2004

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