Piano, Instrumental Music, Songs, and Electronic Music
Besides classical piano, I enjoy experimenting with a variety of types of music. The top menu sorts the blogs into approximate categories. Some blogs might go into more than one category. Where there’s interest, I create sheet music for free download. Let me know if there’s something you would like made available. I often shoot video of performances, but for electronic creations I sometimes make videos using AI. Some videos are a mix of video I’ve taken and AI-generated video.
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Matisse’s Runaway
A 2-piano redo of an early work along with a video performance and imagined adventures of a piano that was painted for Santa Barbara’s Pianos on State Street annual celebration. The rewriting resulted in this piece for 2 pianos, and Broken Train for 2 saxophones. A big thank you to Eliesa, Judy, and Jeanette, who…
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Broken Train
Jazz sextet with 2 saxophones, piano, electric piano, bass, and drums that features a discontinuous melody that often hops between instruments that lets your brain fill in the notes once you’re familiar with it. The piece works up to an angular section with flighty solos at the saxophones’ upper limits, and then settles back to…
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Gaspard de la Nuit II. Le Gibet – M. Ravel
Hauntingly beautiful and ethereal music despite the grim poetry that inspired the music.
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Arabesque No. 1 – C. Debussey
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Fantaisie-Impromptu – F. Chopin
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Siren’s Call – Big Band Version
AI-generated big band version of the song Siren’s Call – a duet of Odysseus and a Siren.
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Variations on a Theme by Chopin – S. Rachmaninov
From this lengthy work of many variations, I present here the theme with two of my favorite variations: IV for its storminess, and XI for its beautiful chromaticism.
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Cants Magics – F. Mompou
A set of visionary and imaginative short works published in 1919. The video is separated in short works to reduce file sizes.
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The Harmonica Player – David Guion
A 1926 piano piece imitating a harmonic tune of the American South.
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Scramble
A jazz sextet number featuring 2 saxophones and 2 keyboards, drums, and bass. The piece is in 12/8 (4 triplets), and latin-inspired montunos (relatively continuous keyboard sequences) enter midway through. Second half of the piece perhaps easiest to hear as 4 sets of 3 consecutive notes on the piano that you can tap quickly with…