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Ramble 28

6 years ago508 words

Despite expressing doubt about my composing abilities in the previous post, I've finished another of these long piano ramble things!

Here's a link: ∞ Ramble 28 ∞

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, but - like I said with about the last one - I think that's largely because I made it. I hope you're able to get something out of it as well though, if you choose to listen to it. I enjoyed being able to focus with passion for a couple of days to get it done; it's wonderful when the drive to give ideas form pierces through the slump of depression like that. If only it was more common for me!

I chose the term 'ramble' for these years ago because they're stream-of-consciousness things where I just follow my whims without an aim or goal; they're like a page of sketches. This one turned out more like a journey, though (and I like that 'ramble' can also mean a "walk for pleasure, typically without a definite route"), or a story with some kind of structure. While crafting it from whatever random ideas came to me from the aether, I did form some clear mental imagery for at least some parts. The title on Soundcloud - meant to encapsulate this imagery - is "Voyage for the Sea Beast", but with things like this I think it's most interesting to let your mind come up with its own unique interpretation! Maybe you'll hear it as something entirely different, and I'd be curious to hear what you see if you do.

I made this piece as long as it is not because I got carried away and didn't want to make it more succinct, but because I've been making these so then I can listen to them in the background while doing other work. So if they're longer, the pleasure gained from their novelty is exhausted more slowly. This is the longest Ramble I've composed - perhaps the longest single piece I've composed? - in terms of number of bars, at 452; some of the older Rambles are about 300 bars, and the previous one was 349. I don't normally care about that at all, but I just found it interesting this time!

∞ Ramble 26 was the last one that I posted ∞, but there's no Ramble 27 because I abandoned it after 40 bars. It just didn't sound very good! I've done that with a few of the Rambles, annoyingly, so though I'm up to 28 now, I'd say there are at most 20 that are actually finished.

It seems that people tend to think of the MARDEK OST when they think of my music, for obvious reasons, but it's been years since I composed that and I've learned so much since then. I was going to ramble about that a bit - about development, progress, etc - in this post, but I think I'll talk about that in another instead. For now, I hope that you don't despise this new music!!