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Whether you’re a fellow WordPress blogger, an interested listener, a music theory enthusiast, or one of my students — thank… Read More

Modal Piano Improvisation through Mixolydian ♭6, Aeolian, Dorian and Major/Ionian This improvisation began, as many do, without a plan, literally… Read More

Through Line – Modal Piano Improvisation Improvisation has become, for me, a way of expressing things that words can’t quite… Read More

This improvisation proceeds in a slow, reflective and searching style — an exploration of two contrasting modes that share F… Read More

I recorded this improvisation mainly to note down some ideas before they slipped away, playing on rather tired fingers and… Read More

I sat down at the piano to improvise today with no plan at all, and with no idea of where… Read More

Improvisation Exploring Multiple Modes Around a Single Tonal Centre with a Neapolitan 6th Leitmotif  Scroll down to find video below,… Read More

Refracted continues the sound world first explored in Fractured Light, returning to the combination of F Dorian with brief modulations… Read More

The Submerged Sundial moves through three different modes – G Aeolian, G Phrygian, and Ab Lydian – the former two… Read More

Here is another improvisation, a piece composed in real time. Today’s improvisation is a development of themes that I explored… Read More