Let's make a rose nobody knows

  • Hey folks, my Kemper isn't active in this video but I wanted to share it nonetheless.


    My 8-year old daughter started taking piano lessons last month. Today, as she was practicing, I was teasing her by running the electric piano through Ableton Live, changing the midi instrument and adding various effects. She immediately started interacting with the delay etc., so I quickly set up a second track and joined in to improvise together. I remembered to hit "Record" as well. :) It turned into a dreamy, hypnotic piece of repetitive minimalism.


    I know it isn't much musically but we really had a moment together. I'm looking forward to a lifetime of music with her.


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  • Lovely. I just stopped ANTHRAX to listen to this. Good, your daughter feels the groove, she stays in line with you playing - or you're making the groove so she is in line :) She hears you playing and she's trying to follow :) I have 4.5 yrs boy which I want also to infect with music for lifetime.


    Do you allow to use your method in my case? :)

  • Thanks, and yeah, go for it! :D


    While we were playing I really had the feeling she was listening -- to me, to the rhythm of the delay, holding back now and then and placing her notes very deliberately. And she was having fun, too.


    (Just noticed I may have synchronized the video incorrectly with the audio export from Ableton Live. Oh well -- that's the thing with repetitive minimalism -- you can lose your way in it. :) )


    (Oh and that title is a quote from the novel Orfeo by Richard Powers. It's what the protagonist, a composer, says to his daughter when they make music together.)


  • Just simple observation, your daughter was practicing over C major scale withing first 5 notes (for most part) - now show her F major scale and the same patterns she was doing on C, change your magic sounds accordingly :)