MOAR SOLO PIANO!
This is dedicated to my beloved wife Jenny, who took care of me when I was sick (keep reading). I love you baby, you mean the world to me. <3
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COVER ART (ha ha ha!) 
SAMPLES
"Chinesque" - Postmodern meandering across a distinguished college's garden leads to desperate longing and a chance encounter at a broken chessboard.
"Classical critic cilled" - Started out as one thing, began as another.
"Epicc" - Misspelling was kept. Repeat some mistakes repeatedly, you get success. It always look normal, as if it had been this way forever.
"Let's talk about icecream" - Childhood memories come back to overjoy, the icecream truck makes its way through the neighborhood… the kind of music I'd do for a children's show.
"Philler" - Very generic chording, but undeliably catchy. Stay watermelon.
STORY
The most polite thing I can tell you before proceeding is, thank you graciously for listening…
Shortly before this past weekend, I sat down and thought to myself,
"It's been a long time (months) since I last recorded piano music."
I got into this frame of mind especially because I've been using more of my piano works as soundtracks for my video tutorials — while I've tended to go with my techno compositions, the piano works have an intimate, introspective, and often calming (even if energetically so 
) feel. This became particularly poignant during the 15-min. vid that is "How to report a bug", and so, I moved on.
I fell very ill on Saturday and slept for most of the day. I suspect I dozed over 12 hours, but by the night, I was pressing melodies into the wind, and continued at 4 AM (normal waking time for me). Now, it's clear from my performances and track-naming how feverish I was. I mean it in the best of ways, because it is in this naive state of mind that The Most Good, Pure, and True of ideas emerges.
Most of these are relaxing, suitable for days when you want to forget time and unwind. (Some, like the sped-up "Piano math rock", are not! I can't recommend those to you!) Each and all were treated individually, effected within a different ambient space — an extension of techniques I've applied before, and now, taken to greater degrees.
Where else I've grown: the average length of these improvs is longer, about 5 min. In some parts, the chording is more conventional, yet in others, there's a brusque sentiment of experimentalism. I wasn't so influenced here by great pianists I admire, but you'll find the usual nods to Glass, Sakamoto, Winston, and alien references that go… beyond.
Look, or rather, listen, for selections from solo piano 5 to appear in my video tutorials.
P.S. Yes, there'll be a Vol. 6.
P.P.S. If you crave more piano music from me, GO HERE. And I'll add this to that page soon enough. 
Beautiful, Beautiful! You are the most consistently incredible person I have ever met. Let the entire universe know that I am so very much in love with you. I am honored by your dedication.
yayzerama!
Torley,
Sent you a vidtut email today, and I should have read this entry first. My "alternate" suggestion was a bug reporting vidtut, which it seems you have already done! Not sure how I missed that one, but I'll check it out once I get home.
Ravenelle, what a wonderful thing to say. You two are lucky and blessed to have each other. Your love is beautiful
Many Hugs,
Taryn
@Ravie: <3
@DarkLight: That's one of my fave words!
@Taryn: Thanks! Replied, as you know by now. I definitely would like to categorize/sort vidtuts better, the http://torley.com/vidtuts page is getting very long and YouTube has tags but still feels too sprawly and unorganized. Any suggestions?
Torley,
No suggestions that I've personally tried, but Photobucket looks promising. We could always petition Flickr to host video as well - their layout is a bit confusing at first, but in the end it makes sense.
Although your VidTut page is long, it's still well-organized, and easy to find what you're looking for. Personally, I'd keep it the way it is
[...] William J. Zick wrote an interesting post today onHere's a quick excerptLook, or rather, listen, for selections from solo piano 5 to appear in my video tutorials. PS Yes, there'll be a Vol. 6. PPS If you crave more piano music from me, GO HERE. And I'll add this to that page soon enough. [...]
Hey Torley I just wanted to give a HUGE THANK YOU not only for these beautiful tunes but also for inspiring me to go back to film making which was once my passion before jobs and bills and stuff made me forget it. I just made my very first machinima, it's far from perfect but I'm just happy to have been inspired to create again. Naturally I had to use one of your pieces of music … You can see the clip here
@Angel: AND A YUGE YOU'RE MOST GRACIOUSLY WELCOME. But the clip has been deleted! Have a new link?
Oh Bah forgotton I'd put a link here. It was reposted here and isn't going anyhere in the near future
Thank you again Torley I Lufffs you.