It's been awhile since I last shared some videos of me playing the piano! (solo piano 6 MP3s are coming up this weekend, more news on that soon.) I put "new" in quotation marks in the title, because these recordings date back several months to before I moved to the US. I rediscovered them on my laptop's hard drive (funny what data computers can hold…) and thought, "Aye, gotta put these on YouTube!" And, I currently don't have a grand piano, but would entertain the possibility in the future. :)

As you can see (and hear), I had some fun with these, setting each in its own visual theme. They are:

  1. Discovery process - So-called because I named it for the act of me digging up these sonic gems.
     

     
  2. Surveillance - Sounds like it looks like! I noticed this recording had horizontal-line digital artifacts, so I figured, instead of making it all pristiney, I'd really gruft it up with scanlines, static, waveyness, and other suspicious dirt. It's good practice for if I want to do more intentional degradations in the future.
     

     
  3. Action movie heroes - Bold, rapid-velocity, and lots of ostinato action. There's a part inspired by Tchaikovsky interspersed with chording similar to the Secret of Mana soundtrack. Yes, that's how deep my influences run. (Wow, I sure move my body a lot.)
     

     
  4. Crossover potential - Tinted this one blue, noir-ish like a paranoid David Lynch film (I've been liking him a lot lately). Name relates to me crossing my hands over. There's a childlike playfulness, yet looming menace in the air. And yes, 'round 4:14 is a definite reference to Yanni.
     

     
  5. You call this minimal(ism) - Had fun with diffuse bloom. Something that came out of my inspired listening sessions to Steve Reich and Terry Riley. Funny story: I was gonna name this "Reich-tastic", but then realized how offensive that might be. I ended up naming the next one…
     

     
  6. Right-tastic - Golden tones abound. A slight flanger on the sound (did you notice it without me saying so?) Tap-tap on the piano to keep tempo. Observe what my hands are doing, the name makes sense.
     

     
  7. A cover of Vangelis' "Alpha" - This has gotta be one of my fave synth tracks of all time, and doing an homage to it with visions of a figure-skating Carl Sagan (Cosmos!) + Michio Kaku in my head is the way to go.
     

Enjoy!