At the home piano…
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Friday night, 3-16-12
A sadly truncated post. I tried to record this one directly into tumblr on my phone, and the app cut me off after one minute! To come: a guest collaboration with my brother after we watched the Alloy Orchestra perform to “Man with a Movie Camera” at Wellesley College. I should have this up by the end of the week! Stay tuned…
2/23/12
This is a recording I made from my home keyboard. I’ll be making these whenever I can’t find other pianos to try out!
I’m trying to recover from a repetitive stress injury to my right hand, and I have felt very cautious about playing too much. This post is definitely on the slower, more contemplative side.
from 11/24/11
This is the piano at the house of my cousins Robyn and Phyllis. Nicole and I were staying there for Thanksgiving break, and they had an upright piano that has been in the family for years – I’m sure it was more than 50 years old – possibly over 100. I sat down after dinner to play, and, memorably, Phyllis’s mom also sang through some old-time popular songs with me. Unfortunately, we didn’t record that, but it was a really wonderful evening.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
2/6/12
I thought I would start a project and see where it would lead! I’m going to record myself improvising on different pianos. This particular piano was an old, very moldy baby grand, in a room off the lobby of the Thornewood Inn in Great Barrington, MA. I couldn’t play long, because my sinuses got very irritated, but I was intrigued with the sonorities of the out-of-tune strings. The setting definitely influences the music I make, and I’m curious to see how these recordings will vary.