My undergrad piano professor, David Renner, introduced me to Nikolai Roslavets a few years ago. I finally followed his suggestion and bought Marc-Andre Hamelin’s excellent CD of a few of his piano pieces. Roslavets was dubbed “the Russian Schoenberg” — he dabbled in his own type of serialism. He himself This was (predictably) not to [...]
Kyle Gann has been on a microtonal kick lately. Today he posted a MIDI rendering of a microtonal quartet of his teacher, Ben Johnston. It makes for some very interesting listening. What strikes me about this piece is that even though there are three or four times as many possible pitches per octave than we’re [...]
So here we go: my first podcast. As I’m a huge classical music nerd, my podcasts will cover music I like; each podcast will be centered around a vague theme or idea. In the first podcast we have: Charles Koechlin: Sonatine No. 2, Op. 87: III, Menuet Einojuhani Rautavaara: A Tale of Fate, “Book of [...]
So it’s Jenny‘s birthday today, and I decided to surprise her a little. I made her a song with Fruity Loops. It has a pretty decent drum machine, and combined with its ability to record velocity while recording loops with a MIDI keyboard and the DVI Les Paul plugin from Sonivox, it actually sounds like [...]
