Tag: piano

  • Composition For Solo Piano With 40 Channel 1 Bit Electronics

    Composition For Solo Piano With 40 Channel 1 Bit Electronics

    New Amsterdam Records releases are special and Surface Image, the album-length composition for solo piano with 40-channel 1-bit electronics, composed by Tristan Perich and performed by pianist Vicky Chow is no exception. “Surface Image is a stunning marriage of Perich’s inspired electronic aesthetic and Chow’s nuanced yet fiercely virtuosic playing. The line between electric and…

  • 4 Aspects Of Your Life You Can Improve By Listening To Jazz

    4 Aspects Of Your Life You Can Improve By Listening To Jazz

    Music is known to have a strong effect on most people. It can compel its listeners to move along its rhythm and dance. It can also provide stimulation to the brain, which can improve a person’s bodily performance. This positive impact can double for the person performing the music. Can you image the impact that…

  • Using Voice Tones To Teach Improvisation For Beginner Jazz Guitar

    Using Voice Tones To Teach Improvisation For Beginner Jazz Guitar

    This article discusses an approach to teaching linear improvisation to beginning jazz guitarists through the function of voice leading in harmonic progressions. The guitar student may gain a clear understanding of improvising melodies by establishing clear visual and aural relationships between the chordal and melodic textures. Three dominant 7th chord voicings are introduced and applied…

  • Toronto Composer Nick Storring sends listener on a journey with “Gardens”

    Toronto Composer Nick Storring sends listener on a journey with “Gardens”

    Nick Storring — Gardens Open Your Eyes And Forget (16.21) (Come To My) Thicket (5.30) Unexpecting (3.52) Nothing Seems To Rhyme (7.25) Inside Every Man Lives the Seed of a Flower (13.21)  Gardens was composed, performed, recorded and mixed spring 2011-autumn 2013. All instruments performed by Nick Storring. The work was designed as an informal…