robertDouglass
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Passion: the piano playing of Kimiko Ishizaka
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Comment · 7 months ago
lobbyists!
Comment · 6 years ago
I have the .boe files somewhere. They're a proprietary version of MIDI that Boesendorfer developed. If you want them, I can find them and send them. [email protected]
Comment · 6 years ago
The ambition of this project (Open Goldberg) was a bit wider. We wanted to make:
- A software score (MuseScore) which has all of the advantages of a canonical digital document vs a picture (which is what IMSLP offers)
- A public domain recording
- A download of the unmixed stems so that people could mix their own (open source model)
- A MIDI version
So... that's what we did!
Comment · 6 years ago
Great recording!
Comment · 6 years ago
First, the score was made with MuseScore. Then it was prepared as an iPad App by the MuseScore team who custom made the synchronization between the score and the music. I then recorded the iPad app as a video using the "Reflector" program for Mac OS X. The iPad app doesn't exist anymore because it was not compatible with new versions of IOS.
There's an article on the recording process here: https://opengoldbergvariations.org/news/recording-the-goldbe...
Anne-Marie Sylvestre used Pyramix as her DAW. I don't know more than that, though.
Comment · 6 years ago
Brad Mehldau is Kimiko's absolute favorite jazz pianist. His mastery of harmony and his impeccable piano technique really speaks to her.
Comment · 6 years ago
All true and good points. The mailing list in question is controlled exclusively by myself and Kimiko Ishizaka and is only used to announce new projects by Kimiko.
Comment · 6 years ago
We love Gulda!
Comment · 6 years ago
The Open Goldberg Variations were recorded on a piano that has a self-playing function. When nearby construction interrupted the recording process with outside noise, we had the piano repeat the takes so that we would still have them, and here's a video of that happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHipuHxYfjU
Comment · 6 years ago
Indeed! Especially in Blues Variations, which is - like the Golderg Variations - a theme-and-variation form. But like the WTC and AoF, it ends in a 4 voice fugue. All on a blues theme =)
Comment · 6 years ago
Stephen Malinowski's videos of Kimiko Ishizaka's Art of the Fugue recording are breathtaking. He understands the structure of the music much the same way that Kimiko does, and it reflects in how he delineates the voices and the themes. He also gave a spectacular treatment to her completion of the unfinished final fugue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrNDWqANCs
Comment · 6 years ago
The scope of his creation is just unfathomable. The utter profundity of his pieces, followed by the sheer proliferation.