Compositions

Improvisations 2: Blake McGee, clarinet; David Vayo, keyboards

performed January 2017
Improvisation with Zane Merritt

David Vayo, piano & Zane Merritt, electric guitar
Improvisation with Joeph Plazak and Amanda Legner

David Vayo, piano, Joeph Plazak, guitar & Amanda Legner, percussion
Improvisation with Joseph Plazak

David Vayo, piano & Joseph Plazak, guitar
Improvisation with Timothy Pitchford

David Vayo, piano & Timothy Pitchford, trombone
Improvisation with Yang Wei

David Vayo, Piano & Yang Wei, pipa
Improvisation with Yang Wei and Mike Block

David Vayo, piano, Yang Wei, pipa & Mike Block, cello
Improvisation for Bell Tree, 2024

performed by David Vayo
Improvisation for Mouth Siren, 2024

performed by David Vayo
Improvisation for Piano and Superball Mallets 2

(2023) performed by David Vayo
Improvisation for Piano and Theraband

(2023) performed by David Vayo
Improvisation for Piano and Tuning Forks 2

(2023) performed by David Vayo
Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with Rain

Improvisations on original patches for Roland V-Synth GT synthesizer.

Ideally, listen to this track while watching the rain.
Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with the Moon

Improvisations on original patches for Roland V-Synth GT synthesizer.

Ideally, listen to this track while gazing at the moon.
Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with Wind

Improvisations on original patches for Roland V-Synth GT synthesizer.

Ideally, listen to this track while feeling the wind.
Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with Flowers

Improvisation on an original patch for Roland V-Synth GT synthesizer

Dedicated to my wife Marie-Susanne Langille, who makes our small patch of ground flourish with beauty and life. Ideally, listen to these tracks while looking at flowers in a garden or meadow. Otherwise, as Emily Dickinson says, “Reverie will do.”
Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with Snow

Improvisations on original patches for Roland V-Synth GT synthesizer

Ideally, listen to this track while looking at snow, especially falling snow.
Improvisations at Dan Harpole Cistern, Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, Washington (1996). David Vayo, voice and found percussion.

An empty water-storage tank with a million-gallon capacity, the Dan Harpole Cistern is one of the world’s most reverberant spaces.
Improvisations by The Mild Bunch, featuring the immortal Ballet Sweetheart (1979)

Tim Bayless, keyboards
David Vayo, keyboards
Ed Hartman, percussion, voice
Improvisations from Founder’s Grove Music Crawl, a neighborhood music event in Bloomington, Illinois (2024)

Performed by David Vayo, piano and synthesizer

Compositions

Improvisations 2: Blake McGee, clarinet; David Vayo, keyboards

Improvisation with Zane Merritt

Improvisation with Joeph Plazak and Amanda Legner

Improvisation with Joseph Plazak

Improvisation with Timothy Pitchford

Improvisation with Yang Wei

Improvisation with Yang Wei and Mike Block

Improvisation for Bell Tree, 2024

Improvisation for Mouth Siren, 2024

Improvisation for Piano and Superball Mallets 2

Improvisation for Piano and Theraband

Improvisation for Piano and Tuning Forks 2

Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with Rain

Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with the Moon

Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with Wind

Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with Flowers

Improvisation for Synthesizer: Sounds with Snow

Improvisations at Dan Harpole Cistern, Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, Washington (1996). David Vayo, voice and found percussion.

Improvisations by The Mild Bunch, featuring the immortal Ballet Sweetheart (1979)

Improvisations from Founder’s Grove Music Crawl, a neighborhood music event in Bloomington, Illinois (2024)