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| Romance -Debussy - same key as You Tube performance by swimmyfishy | 1 year ago |
| I've played a few Debussy piano pieces in my day and listened to a lot of his piano repertoire. Somehow, this little gem escaped my notice. Very beautiful and nicely played indeed. | |
| You Taught Me How To Lie by Vixen | 2 years ago |
| Very enjoyable indeed. And as always, I love your voice. | |
| Kev's Journey (Improvisation No 6) by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Thanks everyone for listening and I'm pleased you've enjoyed this. Sorry for the absence. I've been meaning to get back on and post something and listen to what others are up to. All of a sudden more than a month had passed. Yikes. | |
| Ricercar - in memoriam JSB by dirigent | 2 years ago |
| Love it. Very clear definition and separation of all the voices and yet it hangs together as a cohesive whole. | |
| PIANO-------When the Sun Falls down.... by OMNICELL | 2 years ago |
| Love this! Not my idea of "New Age", whatever that is - just an idea really. I'm interested in your notes: "CLASSICAL COMPOSITIONS ARE WRITTEN.... A CLASSICALLY TRAINED COMPOSER IS ONE WHO IS PART OF THE TRADITION OF WRITING THE MUSIC OUT ON PAPAR.... " Many of the great "classical" composers ("classical" used to account for a tradition of writing music that continues to this day) were known to be phenomenal improvisors (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Debussy. So were their improvisations not classical music? |
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| For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her – Simon & Garfunkel by OMNICELL | 2 years ago |
| I really love this. I like the simplicity of what you are doing here. You, piano & reverb. That age old power of 3. |
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| ANTARES---Composition for Strings by OMNICELL | 2 years ago |
| Different, original, engaging, a little challenging but most importantly, beautiful. Thank you. | |
| Frosty the Snowman by soulima | 2 years ago |
| Crazy, wonky, delightful! | |
| O Come All Ye Faithful by elfdaughter | 2 years ago |
| Very nice arrangement. Very clear, I can hear all the voices and all your voice leading sounds really great. It's Christmas Carol time! I have some to upload as well. I think I'll wait a week or 2 longer. Thanks for getting me in the spirit. |
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| December in the Rain by georgeptingley | 2 years ago |
| Beautiful tune. Thank you. | |
| Alone (Improvisation for Dianne, No. 3) by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Thank you all for your thoughtful listening. George, I think it is so cool that you heard Chopin in this. AFter recording it, I was listening and I was suddenly struck by this and in particular I made a connection with his Etude in C# minor (No. 7, Opus 25). The piece is not really the same, except that in the Chopin, the melody is all in the left hand. And of course, Chopin is one of my Gods in the music world. | |
| Op. 3-Preludes for Piano-I. Largo e misterioso by cjdarnieder | 2 years ago |
| You did succeed. Loved the haunting and almost lonely desolate quality of this piece (I love that in music because it is so powerfully evocative) | |
| Delicate Balance by npaulp | 2 years ago |
| Love the soundscape you create here, especially the simple opening section. | |
| Alex Vachon Improvisation No. 6 by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Thank you for listening. I appreciate your feedback and acknowledgment. | |
| Serenade XII by Narananda | 2 years ago |
| Love the contrasting pizzicato section. | |
| On the Classic trail by telo12 | 2 years ago |
| Sweet. The only response possible is to smile : ) | |
| Forever Voyaging by Mystified | 2 years ago |
| I used to do the same. Lie and stare at the sky and imagine all the other beings out there looking back. Thanks for powerfully reminding me of such lovely memories. | |
| Drawing Blanks by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Thanks all for listening and commenting. I'm glad this is lifting you up. People do tend to start dancing when we perform this. So, I'm not the only one who thinks about "Shooting Blanks" when ever I say "Drawing Blanks". | |
| Mangranruoshi by dirigent | 2 years ago |
| Awesome piece. Love the descending synth motif for some reason. It just captures me everytime I hear it. | |
| calm apparent remix by morfadrena | 2 years ago |
| I like! I like! | |
| Piano solo #1 by JohnTheTimeTraveler | 2 years ago |
| Great work. | |
| Let's Dance Miss Piggy by dirigent | 2 years ago |
 Delightful. Made me smile. What I nice solution to sampling voices so that they sound natural. |
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| Mangranruoshi by dirigent | 2 years ago |
Love this. So creative and inventive yet beautiful and pleasing to the ears. |
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| Shir ha Shirim - I by dirigent | 2 years ago |
Fantastic. It sounds like I am listening to a real live performance with the ensemble all singing together. You have a great singing voice too. |
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| PIANO:------THEME AND VARIATIONS #1. by OMNICELL | 2 years ago |
Great! Makes me think of Mozart too in a quirky sort of way. |
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| for a friend by eagle | 2 years ago |
| Spectacular. Emotional & beautiful without being syrupy sweet. Imaginative orchestration. Really great composition and performance. I'll enjoy listening to this many times. I guess I am going to have to create an iComp playlist in my iTunes application. | |
| Glimpses by Narananda | 2 years ago |
| You are indeed a creative being and you are using the piano in a very pianistic way in this composition. I'm flattered that my music has inspired you to explore the piano today. For me of course, it is an instrument of which I never tire. There is a whole sonic realm when you sit at a "real" grand piano (especially if newly tuned) that I think many musicians do not get to experience. The proliferation of all these amazing and exciting digital and computer software instruments and programs are making this experience increasingly rare. That is one drawback lurking behind the multitude of advantages and opportunities computers and digital instruments have made available. When you push the sustain pedal down on a good tuned piano and start playing chords, gossamer melodies up high, and gloomy deep bass notes down low, a vast spectrum of sympathetic resonances and overtones come forth that no digital piano can even come close to replicating. It might happen some day, but that will be a design and programming feat of huge magnitude. Don't get me wrong, I love my Yamaha Clavinova too (2 of my albums are created with it), but my grand piano takes me on journeys the Clavinova never can are will. Craig UnderThePianoMan |
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| 06 Truth by olympus | 2 years ago |
| Excellent! | |
| PIANO:----- ANNA'S SONG by OMNICELL | 2 years ago |
| Narananda sent me along to listen to this powerfully evocative creation. Congratulations and thank you. Craig UnderThePianoMan |
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| Adagio by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Thanks everyone for your generous remarks. It's a positive beginning to being part of the iComposition community indeed. | |
| Summerend by Narananda | 2 years ago |
Your Soundscapes are fascinating. I had no idea that Garageband was capable of such sophistication (all silly notions apparently). I'm curious to know how you create your sounds or what sources you are using for your sounds. |
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| Let It Down by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Thanks maestrodog and telo12. I was a little nervous that this video (slideshow really) would occur as "slow" for people. It appears that in your case at least it is engaging. That's good to know. This was a new experience for me, working with paintings. I've done a fair bit of visual art myself in the past, so I have a natural affinity with visual art as well. I did improvisations on 5 paintings. I did not think of any format before starting each improvisation. I just looked at a painting for a little while and then started playing and working with whatever happened. This is how I do all of my improvising, but I experienced that a visual starting point creates new openings for exploration. I'm definitely looking forward to doing more of this. The ending for my improvisations seems to occur naturally. I think generally a structure for the improvisation naturally evolves. First a motive emerges, then a chord progression (or vice versa). Then I usually repeat and develop or elaborate on those structures. Then I introduce something contrasting when I've been doing the original ideas for a bit. Then I go back to the original material. So a natural form emerges and then as a result a natural place to end becomes apparent. I've never thought about this before, but when I do, that's what I see happening. | |
| Blast by museric | 2 years ago |
| Is that you Eric? from Burnaby? Surely there can only be one museric. Welcome to iComposition and congrats on your first upload. Freaky that you did it right at the same time as I uploaded my first video. Craig |
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| Fairy magic by Narananda | 2 years ago |
This is mystical, fantastical, and magical. Thank you for creating! I'm transported to another world. |
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| Electroplated Funk by zincshed | 2 years ago |
| I like your style of playing. Deceptively simple sounding but not. Like Mozart would write if he was a jazz musician. | |
| Sonata No 8 (Beethoven) by zincshed | 2 years ago |
Nice. A whole new take on the Pathetique Sonata. Excellent arrangement and execution. |
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| September's Adagio by telo12 | 2 years ago |
Beautiful piece. I like the way you've taken a simple motif and built upon that idea while still keeping interest and engagement in the music. I'd love to hear it with a better piano and choir synthesis - it would be ready for a feature film then. |
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| Volkhova's Lullaby by alenqa | 2 years ago |
| Even better then your O Mio Babino Caro Elena. | |
| O Mio Babbino Caro by alenqa | 2 years ago |
| You have a beautiful voice! | |
| Emergence by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Thanks for listening. I'm brand new to iComposition. Very excited about this. All those composers hanging out in one place is inspiring and it's great to know people are actually listening. Craig |
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| the piano by pepper | 2 years ago |
| There is something entrancing and intoxicating about the sonic qualities of the opening piano chord, which you repeat several times. What are you using for your piano and what are you doing to create that sound? I'm fascinated! I'm "favouriting" this one. | |
| Maria durch ein Dornwald ging by dirigent | 2 years ago |
Ravishing... Transporting... Magical... I'm moved and all teary in that good way music makes you so. Thank you for sharing this. Did you also arrange this? Let me know. If so, I'll have to bump your creativity rating up to a 5 : ) |
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| Is Tú Mo Ghrá (Dedicated to Garni's Wife) by OneVox | 2 years ago |
| Great song. Passionate and intense. There is something about Djev's voice that demands attention. Bravo. | |
| Floating by soulima | 2 years ago |
| Very beautiful. A little touch of Aaron Copland in your harmonies and orchestration? Have you checked out the Vienna Symphonic Library. The Classical Demo Zone is like being a kid in a candy shop. Candy for the ears of course. http://vsl.co.at/en/67/245/255.vsl | |
| Alfred's Improvisation No. 6 by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Thanks Rusticalia. My piano is not a Steinway or Boesendorfer. It's a moderate and serviceable 5' 10" Kawaii KG-2. I LOVE my piano. We have a long history together. Past attempts to record it left me dismally uninspired. I am so fortunate to have stumbled upon this little Zoom H4n recorder. I did only 4 or 5 tests to get to the placement of the device and the consequent results you just heard. | |
| Alfred's Improvisation No. 6 by UnderThePianoMan | 2 years ago |
| Wow! I just joined iComposition minutes ago and uploaded my first song. Comments from KDB91 and Xolv in just 4 minutes. It's encouraging to find a forum where you know you are actually being heard. Thank you KDB91 and Xolv. Regarding the sound. It's so simple it's painful. I recently bought a Zoom Handy Recorder H4n. It sits on a little mic stand that sits on a piece of foam placed on the left hand side of my grand piano. I push record and that's it. At first, I imported the files into ProTools so I could trim of the noise at the beginning and ending of the recording and then divide the 40 minute recording into individual tracks. This was very laborious as ProTools does not have an easy way to insert track beginning points within one long continuous recording. A friend told me about Audacity. It has a feature called Labels. You simple insert a label at the beginning of each track and then export as multiple. It automatically divides the whole thing into separate tracks. Takes just 15 minutes. The sound is pretty good isn't it. I have not added or tweaked anything. No reverb, no compression, no noise reduction. No nothing. Your hearing the raw data. Craig UnderThePianoMan |
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