It’s November! You know what that means (or if not, the title of the post should help.)
SOMEWHAT INCREDIBLY, this is the 10th year since I started doing Pianowrimos back in 2017…
Day 1: girl dancing with the moon
written after I went to a birthday party dressed as a sky full of hot air balloons, which reminded me of this bit from one of my old favourite books, The Man Who Was Thursday:
“They were led out of another broad and low gateway into a very large old English garden, full of torches and bonfires, by the broken light of which a vast carnival of people were dancing in motley dress. There was a man dressed as a windmill with enormous sails, a man dressed as an elephant, a man dressed as a balloon … One dancer dressed like an enormous hornbill, with a beak twice as big as himself. There was a dancing lamp‑post, a dancing apple tree, a dancing ship. One would have thought that the untamable tune of some mad musician had set all the common objects of field and street dancing an eternal jig. … Every couple dancing seemed a separate romance; it might be a fairy dancing with a pillar‑box, or a peasant girl dancing with the moon; but in each case it was, somehow, as absurd as Alice in Wonderland, yet as grave and kind as a love story.”
click through for days 2-7….
Day 2: Gyroscope
A title decided more by feel than anything else
Day 3: Threshold
It’s wistful!! I always used to do wistful. Still do. I like wistful.
Day 4: Anima
And this title comes from a performance direction con anima rather than a Jungian concept or anything else! Very much playing with some fake Chopin and trying to resurrect my Romantic harmony knowledge.
Day 5: Mixed Media
I imagine the medias being mixed involved paint splatters and some other stuff…
Day 6: Automatic Dreaming
The most definitely Final Fantasy inspired one so far — specifically the Under Junon theme from FFVII Rebirth. I really wasn’t expecting it to be in 13/8 but here we are, it’s no big deal.
Day 7: The sky can still remember
One week into November and we have a Christmas text…. Well, we’ve been rehearsing Christmas in choir for a little while now, so I had it on the brain.
Follow the playlist here on youtube; album and sheet music will appear next month as usual!