Lovely piano for your pleasure

All of the following performances are by me, Torley. In most cases, they're also original compositions and improvisations. Choose any of them to enjoy the stories behind the songs and direct MP3 download links!

• SoundCloud collection – Various improvs and delectables I hath uploaded.
• Pianoverse – 50 lovely little gems, most under a minute.
• Holidium – Heartwarming adventures into the holidays and beyond.
• solo piano 7 – 176 solo piano improvisations. So good you should listen to it.
• solo piano 6: Really Repetitive Piano Music – But not as repetitive as I thought it'd turn out. 45 improvs which span the range from soothing new age/ambient to repetitive structures (that'd make Philip Glass proud!) to Scottish larrikin-osity.
• solo piano 5 – 44 MOAR! Beauty & beastliness, a compendium of quintessential keyboard soundage. Performed and recorded when I was under the weather, something I'm thankful for in hindsight.
• Cover songs – Includes moving piano renditions of James Holden's "Horizons", Utada Hikaru's "Simple & Clean" (AKA "Hikari"), Avril Lavigne's "Things I'll Never Say," and Depeche Mode's "Somebody". Also has my techno takes on Aphex Twin's "Girl/Boy Song" and one of John Williams' famous Star Wars themes.
• Four Elements – 4 pretty long pieces that evolve, unfold, and stare back you — but in a way you'd find pleasant. Heck, read the writeup while listening, it's more amusing.
• play while answering email – 14 pieces. Do exactly as it sez and you'll be alright. Very pastoral at parts, I thought about being in a luxury hotel on a classy laptop while this was piped through the rich surround speakers placed throughout the room. (Listen carefully for the pedal clunks, ahh "realism"!)
• solo piano 4 – A single piece which is about an hour (60 min.) in length. It goes through a lot of changes including some abrupt ones, and my wife said it was unsettling. I tend to agree.
• solo piano 3 – 44 pieces… you know how it goes. Even mo' variety. After I established a bedrock, I experimented more. Influences from my fave pianists like George Winston and Raul di Blasio shine through, as focused through the prism of Second Life's digital landscapes.
• solo piano 2 – 44 more pieces of solo piano. A continuation of the above with different recording techniques and keyboard styles. I love how the cover art for this turned out.
• Improvisations, Vol. I – 44 pieces of solo piano. Where the "New Renaissance" of my piano recordings began. I was inspired, and set forth to share. As it often tends to be in my life, it worked out really well.
• The Games We Played – Love video game music? This epic mega-medley is for you!
  
  

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And if that isn't enough for you and you actually want to see me playing the piano, you're right in luck too — watch these videos:

• Fringe Theme – From the hit show! I <3 Walter Bishop. Also get a high-quality MP3 version and learn how to play it.
• 7 "new" solo performance videos – Lovely gems unearthed from the vault, polished, and visually effected for your delight. Includes a cover of Vangelis' "Alpha", which is such a badass cosmic theme, I had to do it.
• Such Great Sadness, healing for a dying Earth – Very moody performances almost bordering on horror movie scores at times, with the lighting to match. In some ways, this is the most depressing thing I've done. In others, it's the most joyous. I'm not conflicted; I'm an AND person.
• "Rydeen" on piano: a tribute to Yellow Magic Orchestra – This is one of the brilliantest musical compositions in homo sapiens' nascent history, and I just had to do my own interpretation.
• MELON SNOW (parody of "Chocolate Rain) – Okayyyy, this doesn't totally belong here, but the original song has an addictive piano loop, so you might as well check it out for my wide-eyed theatrics. Remember, I want to be a voiceover actor, and choice of fruit doesn't change that.
• Vangelis meets Ryuichi Sakamoto ("Hymne" vs. "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence") – Two melodic synth masters get melded by my long fingers.
• Listen to this and look at paintings (yes really) – And what sort of paintings was I thinking of, you may ask? A bastard spawn of Thomas Kinkade, Salvador Dali, Keep Adding, and Roger Dean of course!
• Minimal piano marvel-osity – Simple can be best.
• plays trance piano hits! – Self-explanatory. Includes such golden staples as Robert Miles' "Children", BT's "Flaming June", and that "Popcorn" tune. No, I'm not kidding.
• Torley on Piano – 24 episodes of exuberantly ecstatically elated performances that make Glenn Gould look like Mitch Hedburg. I blogged about the first few, but there's really too many. Not just piano, either — check out my groovebox jams, for I know how to proverbially get down.