This is my long overdue response for Eric Barnhill’s versus. This is already the third piece in the series. This time I had real trouble coming up with a theme that is not repetitive yet recognisably chained to Eric song’s structure. In particular, I’m not happy with the rhythmic accuracy I managed to get (or rather - the lack of it).

But the longer I worked on different improvisations on the theme, the more I felt this would go nowhere, so in the end I kept this version. Imperfect but done.

Listen to Bodytrapped III 7:28

Tags: jazz, witty, technical, 125 bpm, long

This piece is the continuation of the improvisation challenge for Eric Barnhill in a series of versuses, mutual improvisations on a given theme. The game turns out to be very interesting and it was tough to prepare a worthy improvisation as a response for his piece. I hope the result is okay.

Listen to Bodytrapped II 3:21


Update: Eric posted his response, well played indeed. Let’s see where I can go from here...

Tags: 90 bpm, technical, witty, heavy, waltz

This piece is the first challenge for Eric Barnhill in a planned series of versuses, mutual improvisations on a given theme. The rules we set are as follows:
- every improv and versus is a single take, improvised
- the versus is based on the original improv
- consecutive versuses are based on themselves

I hope this turns out interesting.

Listen to Bodytrapped 5:03


Update: Eric already posted his response! You can download it by clicking here.
 

Tags: 98 bpm, technical, witty, waltz