Made it to the Roslindale Square #streetpianosboston and it is stormy! Not quite raining yet though! (at Roslindale Square)
Author: melsenc
Boston Street Pianos 2016: JP Licks, Jamaica Plain
JP Licks #streetpianosboston in JP! (at J P Licks Homemade Ice Cream Company)
Boston Street Pianos 2016: East Boston Public Library
Just had a fantastic time playing #streetpianosboston at the East Boston Public Library! Had a wonderful convo with a young man who wanted to learn a song by Adele that he used to know. It was cool to work on it with him and then hear him play it! I hope he gets to have piano lessons like he wants! (at East Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library)
Boston Street Pianos 2016: Veronica Robles Cultural Center
I made it to East Boston but the first piano is closed! #streetpianosboston (at Veronica Robles Cultural Center)
Piano Log 2016-5-17
Friends, I was so excited to learn that the Boston Street Piano Project is coming back! Last year, I created videos by stitching together audio from my phone and video from a tiny little pinhole digital camera (that itself had terrible audio). In preparation for another season of outdoor performances, I just invested in a Zoom q4 video recorder which can do wide angle. It takes wonderful audio quality, and the video picture is better than my little pinhole camera by far. I made this piano log to test it out. Enjoy!
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Piano Log 2015-8-22 Part 6 – PDX
After playing duets with Dad, and after a rather messy performance of a Chopin G Major Prelude, I wanted to play just one more time before moving on to find our departure gate at the airport. If you’re familiar with the prelude, you’ll hear how I started there with this improvisation. I think this is the most exuberant one of the day, and a fitting end to the string of Portland public performances. Playing piano makes me so happy, and getting to play for other people even more so. Thank you for listening 🙂
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Piano Log 2008-12-2 Part 2 – Chopin Prelude 3 in G, twice, with mistakes
Just for fun, here is a recording I made almost seven years ago in GarageBand. I did two takes of this prelude, then overlaid the tracks, and I think it’s kind of a fun listening experience. Plus, it has relevance for the next post. Enjoy!
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Piano Log 2015-8-22 Part 6
After playing duets with Dad, and after a rather messy performance of a Chopin G Major Prelude, I wanted to play just one more time before moving on to find our departure gate at the airport. If you’re familiar with the prelude, you’ll hear how I started there with this improvisation. I think this is the most exuberant one of the day, and a fitting end to the string of Portland public performances. Playing piano makes me so happy, and getting to play for other people even more so. Thank you for listening 🙂
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Piano Log 2015-8-22 Part 5 – collaboration with Philip Carlsen at PDX
Here is the second duet improvisation with my dad, Philip Carlsen (www.philcarlsen.com). In this one, I’m playing bass, and he’s playing treble. I snuck a peak around us during the middle of this, and a sizeable crowd had gathered. It can be such a relief in a stressful situation like an airport to be able to make and listen to live music!
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Piano Log 2015-8-22 Part 4 – collaboration with Philip Carlsen at PDX
And then my dad joined me and we improvised two duets. This is the first: he is playing bass and I’m playing treble. I grew up listening to him compose at the piano, and I have been heavily influenced by his sense of musical adventure and creation. Check out some of his work on his website: www.philcarlsen.com. You can listen to clips there and on Soundcloud. Also, there is a professional recording of me playing a piece that he wrote for me, “October”, put out by Parma Recordings. Here’s a link to the recording on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/october/id897219922?i=897220124&mt=1&app=music (but you can also find it on Rhapsody, and probably other music streaming services)