Today I’m launching my new musical podcast of short piano or keyboard improvisations.  I call it Spontaneous Reflections, and am planning to update it approximately weekly.  It’s available free in the iTunes store or you can subscribe directly here.

For those of you who don’t know, I started my career in music school and playing keyboard in the showrooms of Reno, but found the vocational aspects much less exciting than I hoped, and switched over to a more intellectually and financially rewarding career in computer software.

After a long period of playing primarily pipe organ, a couple of years ago I returned to piano and keyboard and though I don’t have my 20-year old chops (and pipe organ tends to ruin your sense of rhythm) I am exploring some new directions in my improvisation, really trying to dig into the instrument as a percussion instrument.

Live music is a funny thing though - each note goes out into the Ether and dissolves, gone forever except as ghosts in memory.  And I find that playing is quite a different experience than listening, heavily colored with the subjective.  To grow further I thought it valuable to be able to listen to some of my improvisations and see what works and what doesn’t, and to help me practice more discipline about the overall shape of a piece.  This podcast thus is an audio journal, not polished or refined, but genuinely spontaneous.

I hope you enjoy it!