"Floating World" by AJ Williams

Contemporary classical guitar; new music for classical guitar; original composition
This is a piece written several years ago. I recorded it once before and then forgot about it. Rediscovering it, I really loved the spaced-out, dreamy atmosphere. It's nothing like a Chopin nocturne, of course, but that's the feeling those harmonic progressions give me - sort of delicately balanced on the edge between waking and dreaming. And the hypnotic little repeated rhythmic figure is very lulling and peaceful. It's altogether liquid and gently tidal, to my perception.
I didn't know when I gave it its title that Floating World was a Japanese cultural reference, and it was not meant to convey anything Japanese...but I'm not going to change the title now, because separated from any other references it says what the piece sounds like to me.
For a player this has its challenges but I din't find it too hard to re-learn, although as frequently happens when I revive a piece, I changed all the fingering. You can find the score here:
bergmann-editi...
Please visit my website www.AJWilliams... for lots of free MP3 downloads of my music.
The guitar in the video is a beautiful maple and spruce classical built last year by Stephen Frith, Crawley, UK www.frithguita...

[@Sarah-iv3ob]

Beautiful Andrew!!!!

[@andrewwilliams6139]

@@Sarah-iv3ob thank you! I think my playing is still improving, but it's such a slow process!

[@hiddenfallsrd]

This is so sweet!
Is it written down/for purchase,,?

[@andrewwilliams6139]

Thank you Heidi. Yes, it's published - you can find it here: bergmann-edition.com/collections/williams-andrew-1/products/williams-floating-world