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. 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. I use the following tools for electronic production: Abelton Live, Ace Studio, LTX Studio, and Da Vinci Resolve.
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Debussy’s “Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun” — a transcription shortened for piano
This is a shortened version of a transcription of this orchestral piece for solo piano made by Leonard Borwick published in 1914. It is available for free download from the Petrucci Music Library online. I shortened the transcription to half the playing time by playing through the 6th measure on the 6th page, and then…
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In the Air
A blues song about climate change
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J. S. Bach’s English Suite II Prelude (Shortened Version)
I shortened this piece to about one-half its length. I played the first 82 measures, then inserted the following modified passage: This passage leads back to the key of original key of Am instead of Em. Then I continued with measure 145 to the end of the piece.
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Siren’s Song
Odysseus and his men come out of the storm, but his crew mutinies in his effort to avoid the sirens.
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Red-Hot Gig (featuring Peter L)
A “future jazz” composition with surreal video. It started with Pinky’s at 9:30 & E, and a gray cat, but then morphed so considerably with newer inspirations that the starting ones vanished.
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Green Heat
I wrote this in memory of the Buena Vista Social Club. It’s a fusion of different styles around a bit of latin jazz with a short piano solo. AI music genre analyzers think it has elements of House, Down Tempo, and Future Jazz electronic genres, always amusing for what it’s worth.
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Sky Rise
Matisse’s piano goes crazy and music bursts out.
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Prokofiev, Sonata No. 7, Part 3, “Precipitato”
This is an amateur performance of one of the more difficult pieces I’ve ever attempted. Prokofiev let his true feelings about Stalin spill into his three “War Sonatas,” nos. 6-8, written in 1942. The war sonatas are tumultuous, chromatic, and dissonant. The finale to no. 7, the “Precipitato,” is a relentless tocatta in septuple time.…
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Drum ‘n Bells
Music transmission going around the world from New Mexico to Madagascar to China to Burning Man to New Mexico. Video consists of actual footage combined with imaginary footage set to an EDM creation featuring drums, bass, and bells.
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Visions Captives
Piano composition for 4 hands with latin rhythm and jazz influences, chromaticism, and cluster chords. Sheet music and recordings with a count-in of the separate parts to play along with are free to download with the links below.