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Voyage 5: Flying Fish

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VOYAGE 5: FLYING FISH
#neoclassical #piano #fishtails
Quietly eating breakfast 14 storeys up, starboard side, in the literal middle of the Pacific, looking at the wavelets way below. The Southeast Trades are slow to pick up this morning, and there's only the occasional little splatter of a whitecap. But the eye isn't seeing quite right, because some of the little splatters produce a diamond, or two, or three, that go much further and faster and more solidly than a bit of foam should. And the realisation dawns, despite the Olympian heights of the monstrous #cruiseship, the transitory diamonds are #flyingfish. There aren't that many, but after breakfast, on a much much lower deck, they treat us to an intermittent display of speed gliding. We applaud the one who manages 20 seconds. Still not quite the Kon-Tiki, where breakfast could be flying fish who'd hit the sail overnight.

[It took me till my 75th year to see a flying fish, creature of romance and distant horizons. It was worth it. The music: I've used these sorts of glissandos for fishes before, but hey, why not. Arthritis now prevents me playing at the correct speed, so to my chagrin this was played in on MIDI at 2/3rds speed, then re-rendered at the correct tempo. Well, the alternative was hitting the piano with fists, not quite the effect sought]

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Steinway #piano patch courtesy Garritan Personal Orchestra.

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Comments

@knobbyneggins815 10w

So meditative and gorgeous! Love the background of the track, very sweet and informative.

@hyssop 10w

This is incredibly beautiful. You've captured the flying feeling so well and the sparkling scales as they breach the water! Truly stunning work.

@odilongreen 10w

Lovely and, yes, soaring (no "flying" pun originally intended, but what the heck, now that I noticed it...). This has a relaxed, effortless feel of sun-dappled water and the gentle rocking of the boat; it's utterly charming and disarming.