Just when I reckon I'm done with solo piano, I'm not: even with the "one basic sound" a piano has to offer, there's an expressively wide range of tonalities within those 88 "ivories" — and thus, the series continues…
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COVER ART 
SAMPLES
"Love Swash" - Shortest, sweetest. Gliding chords, the perfect ender for an afternoon bender.
"End Titles" - Slow-paced, beautiful melodies cascade over the speakers while the credit rolls.
"Music for another love scene" - Inspired by Vangelis' score for Blade Runner, without the saxophone. This is one of the most romantic improvisations I've ever done. (I detuned the piano sound slightly.)
"Newfield" - The name's a deliberate reference to Mike Oldfield, specifically interlocking arpeggi which he's fond of using. This starts @ 1:57.
"Newage" - A pastiche of new age/ambient piano chord progressions and melodies. In that respect, it's somewhat of a Frankenstein monster, yet it's so tender!
STORY
Time goes by, and things that once mattered so much don't anymore. Emotional outbursts gel into subdued acceptance, panicked crises become tavern tales, and wild youth mellow down. At least most of the time.
What I'm trying to say here is: with the experience I've accumulated across the previous series of piano improvisations (and yes, all of solo piano 6 has been improvised too), I've turned my head backward, observing in retrospect how much some themes have been strengthened and developed while others faded away — like a sonic natural selection. I have this tendency to like something while I'm playing it, dislike (or even hate) it while listening to it right after recording, then loving it months down the road.
Going into solo piano 6, I dubbed it "Really Repetitive Piano Music" from the outset because my intent was to do an over-the-top sendup of Philip Glass' Études for Piano and related works. Part of this cheekiness was motivated by the fact that Carly Comando's "Everyday", undeniably similar to Glass' music for The Truman Show, sounded as if it could've been a member of an extended family — and I hesitate to say "rip-off" as that isn't fair, but I like to think, "What if, in alternate history, she was Glass' daughter?" Peculiar as that may be, consider that Noah Kalina, star of the "Everyday" YouTube phenom, looks like a younger Philip Glass. (I had to get that out of my system, and I've a picture comparison coming up in a later blog post.)
Anyway, I may be making this seed seem larger than the tree it spawned, so I moved on: I recorded some improvs and tried to make them as repetitive as possible — "Lifecycles", "Eloquence", and "Monot" are among the most representative of being similar to the former influences — but found this very difficult to do. I'm inclined towards change, variation, and while it's sometimes subtle, I don't like to bore.
Incidentally, the cover art was manifested forth from a picture of my face and some custom text run through the Apple2 module for XScreenSaver. It never ceases to surprise me how terribly disparate influences can connect within my art, and in this case, I was prompted to do this after reading Steve Wozniak's iWoz autobiography (my gosh, on sale for US$3.21 at Amazon.com!). What's so special about Apple2 is it emulates the television set fuzz and distortion of the original, lending what we call character.
I suppose I'm quite a character. Accepting my lot in life, I continued forth, letting the notes fall where they did, and now, I'm sharing it with you. 
Oh, that's an awesome set of screensavers! I really like their Television emulator, they should make it export movie files, or make it an iMovie plugin.
It's easy to space out when listening to these tracks. And when you space out, the tracks seem to blend together seamlessly.
I bet if you had every single song from this set on shuffle, you would still get that effect…
@Thattagen: Some of my piano music is more like that than others, but great observation! Infact, the first solo piano volume was meant to be like a series of etudes that could interlock and be played in any order. I want to do more that flows and ebbs and… SPACES OUT!
@Daed: Totally agree, and Sony Vegas has a pretty good TV emulator plugin. Shame it isn't for Mac too! (I wish a good helping of Mac-only apps, like the whole Omni suite, were available for Windows too.)
Hello, Torley. Have you ever considered getting some of your work in a bittorrent or something? People, I imagine, would strain your server when they download your music. Since you're releasing a lot at a time, I think you should offer torrents of your music. That way, we can all share your music.
@Iggy: My music (including the above) is stored on the Internet Archive @ http://archive.org , which should have PLENTY of bandwidth! It's no problem for me, and while they don't have torrents offered (that I'm aware of), it's a good thing to keep in mind.