i played this for sepia this past xmas before my aunt’s family moved in and I couldn’t do dumb stuff like recording videos ever again; flandre’s theme transcribed by marasy8 originally here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHNrRaQB4Q I listened to his video and wrote down his transcription, then changed it a little to my own preference. I would buy his score but that’s not possible so cheating it is ;-;
I promised to post the video one second and completely forget about it the next lol…… here it is! the total time spent was something like 1.5 hrs and the video is only 5x. That means basically nothing was accomplished in the video but you can see more clearly what I waste my time on when I draw (: I stopped pretty often to chat while streaming because I didn’t think I would make a video out of this part, so sorry about that! otherwise, enjoy~
Kapustin playing his own Toccatina
Finished piece is here: http://okolnir.tumblr.com/post/19212510297
So far most of my videos are pieces which I get done in a reasonable amount of time. Those pieces are usually not the ones I’m terribly serious about in comparison, and I wanted to make a video of one such piece to show those who are interested what it is like for me to spend like 30 hours on a single piece. Not that time spent automatically translates to quality work, but I’ve always wanted to see this kind of stuff from artists I follow so I thought I’d do it myself too. Some other pieces I took forever to finish are Duel, Immortal, Veloce Visrin, and Good Bye.
Most of the time spent on these pieces are spent drawing, erasing and redrawing the same part. The time spent doesn’t always translate to astronomical amount of detail or objects rendered, but more often to the fact that there is a certain look I may be going for and I was not satisfied with what I had, and I actually care enough/can afford to waste time on erasing the whole part and starting over again.
It’s pretty pointless to watch the entire video because it’s so damn long and you can get the gist of everything just from skimming, especially with youtube’s new awesome screenshot thumbnail feature. But I left it at reasonable speed (20x) and full length so any segment that anyone ever want to look at in detail will be there at your disposal.
View on youtube at expanded size for a slightly better quality! `u`b And ALL info about this piece/video is in the video comment on youtube.
Horowitz interviewed in Amsterdam, 1986.
“Those who criticize suffer more than the artist.”
I love this man
According to the ancient superstition, “Death” appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning). His skeletons dance for him until the first break of dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.
The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition:
Zig, zig, zig, Death in cadence,
Striking a tomb with his heel,
Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,
Zig, zig, zag, on his violin.
The winter wind blows, and the night is dark;
Moans are heard in the linden trees.
White skeletons pass through the gloom,
Running and leaping in their shrouds.
Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking,
You can hear the cracking of the bones of the dancers.
A lustful couple sits on the moss
So as to taste long lost delights.
Zig zig, zig, Death continues
The unending scraping on his instrument.
A veil has fallen! The dancer is naked.
Her partner grasps her amorously.
The lady, it’s said, is a marchioness or baroness
And her green gallant, a poor cartwright.
Horror! Look how she gives herself to him,
Like the rustic was a baron.
Zig, zig, zig. What a saraband!
They all hold hands and dance in circles.
Zig, zig, zag. You can see in the crowd
The king dancing among the peasants.
But hist! All of a sudden, they leave the dance,
They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.
Oh what a beautiful night for the poor world!
Long live death and equality!
Chopin - Sonata in B minor, Op. 58
IV. Finale: Presto non tanto
Maurizio Pollini, pianoThe finale of the B minor sonata is driven by one of Chopin’s most infectious melodies. Something in the main theme seems to me to foreshadow Rachmaninoff.
All these songs I listened to day and night back in high school but haven’t since because I lost their recordings and thus forgotten about their existence ):
Poulenc - O magnum mysterium
from Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël, Op. 152International Orange Chorale of San Francisco
fucking LOVE poulenc’s choral stuff
I get asked once in a while so here’s a more up to date video of my playing and ironically a lot worse than what I was capable of a few years ago. This is Lezghinka by Liapunov, my favourite and most satisfying song to play, though not as much to listen to.
I majored in music in university as you may already know, but I haven’t practiced piano for almost 3 years now (2011) as you can tell what I have been doing instead after my graduation. I still play once or twice every other week for fun, sometimes more often, sometimes I don’t play for months. But playing is nothing like practicing (incidentally this statement also applies to drawing) so I am at where I am now. If my profs and old classmates find this atrocity through sheer luck, well, feel free to face palm and judge hahaha, I deserve it. To everyone with bleeding ears, I apologize for committing this crime to the music! Believe me I know exactly how it feels (:
old song but I’ve never heard it before
ffff the voice leading y so gooood?? or I’m just that deprived of satb writing in the past few years
last part of the colouring!
blendfest part wonnnnn
lines forever
I’ll have stuff to post after FanEXPO ): but for now, SONGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY. I keep forgetting how much I love jazz because I have no knowledge in jazz at all and I don’t know where/how to find jazz songs that I like lol ]: jazz music to me is like graphic design or architecture to me, I LOVE IT BUT I CANT DO IT
