Improvisation on a Simple Melody 🎡🎬

My improvisations usually orbit harmony, texture, and rhythm β€” not melody.
Melody feels too exposed. Maddeningly simple, but also difficult.

This piece was a constraint: start with a simple motif. Don't run too far. Don't decorate too much. Just turn it slowly.

Even the piano needs to sing.

  • Date: 2025
  • Tools: Grand piano
  • Process: Live one-take improvisation on a self-imposed melodic constraint
  • Iterations: 1
  • Artifacts: An surprise 5-tuplet B section