A few weeks ago I was able to meet Gregory Hall (Tip Corbett on Second Life-- we will get to that in a moment). He is a modern composer and classical pianist with futurist ideas with a love of 19th century parlor piano music. He has ideas much like I do about how to change the state of classical music-- grassroots ways. That is not to be discussed on this current blog...
He came up to record himself on the best piano north of Boston-- the Franco Center Steinway. I was able to tag along and improvise a few ideas as well. Although he recorded video and audio of me, I do not have the video at the moment. What I do have are two tracks that I put into Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/neil-james-2/improvisation-2/s-TjQpd
https://soundcloud.com/neil-james-2/improvisation-1/s-K2t95
Although my past is full of singer/songwriter music, rock, jazz, and ambient-- I am delving further into classical music with a big emphasis on the post-tonal styles of the early to mid 20th century. Piano is not going to be the only medium either-- this is just a vessel to get ideas out quickly. I also felt at ease on the piano and I believe it has the largest voice of all my instruments.
Let the sound collection begin!
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