Ballad of The Outer Life

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Classical Piano

A compilation of contemporary classical music composed by Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt

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Adagio In G Minor Albonini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Down_Again

08. Depeche Mode "Never Let Me Down Again" (1987)

Metamorphosis I - Philip Glass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_im_Spiegel

Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel

Arvo Pärt- Spiegel Im Spiegel

Andrew Chubb performs his 2007 solo piano work, 'Meditation at Bar Beach' - studio recording from 2008.(Piano: Kawai RX5 - Recording Engineer: Gareth Hudson)

'Meditation at Bar Beach' exists as a self contained work for solo piano but also as a collaborative project with images. Andrew Chubb composed Meditation at Bar Beach in 2007 in response to a collaborative project with Australian photographer, Allan Chawner.This collaboration became known as 'Bar Beach...Beyond the Sea' which featured Chubb’s solo piano work, Meditation at Bar Beach and a 3-way video projection of images by Allan Chawner (a selection thousands of photographs of Bar Beach, Newcastle, taken over a time period spanning 6 years). This project was first presented at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery in 2007 and since has been exhibited in Canada in 2008.The Canada exhibition opening at St Mary's University, Halifax, featured Andrew Chubb at the piano performing the work live with the projection for the first time, rather than the usual presentation of the sound recording of the piano work. 'Meditation at Bar Beach' as a solo piano concert work was premiered by the composer on the Australian made Stuart &amp; Sons piano at the Newcastle Conservatorium Concert Hall on 27 July, 2007. The recording here is the studio recording made by the composer in 2008 before the tour of Canada.

When writing this piece in 2007, Andrew Chubb very clearly intended 'Meditation at Bar Beach' to be piano work in its own right. He felt strongly that for the collaboration project to be successful, that his music needed to be an independent work – a complete journey in itself and rather than being a musical commentary on the set of images. With that in mind, he corresponded with Allan Chawner only in overall concepts and basic aspects of structure and only viewed a sample of images that Allan Chawner had taken before going on to compose the work 'Meditation at Bar Beach'.

'Meditation at Bar Beach' is a journey, one of varied emotional states ranging including a searching calmness, poignant reflection and angst.These “themes” develop and expand throughout the work until the piece reaches its final thoughts. Andrew Chubb wrote at the time: “These feelings were quite true to me while writing the work and my conception was that these feelings or thoughts are often common to what many people might experience during an almost timeless period to one’s self before a place of such beauty and expansiveness. Allan and I discussed the idea of how the beach, the sea and in this case, Bar Beach in Newcastle, a beautiful place that is local to both of us, could allow a person to indulge themselves into a state of mind that allows them to simply think, recollect, fantasise or in some cases “meditate” in whatever way in which their mind leads.Perhaps this work was my own “meditation” at the time. There seems to be a certain attraction to many places such as Bar Beach that enable time to stand still, for however long we need, to think beyond what we see and to enable our mind the time and peace to “meditate’ on whatever is relevant.”

'Meditation at Bar Beach' is now dedicated in memory of Laura Clark, a very close and dear friend of Andrew Chubb, who tragically passed away in September, 2010.

www.andrewchubb.com

Andrew CHUBB: 'Meditation at Bar Beach' for piano

Aus der Nacht der Komponisten 2008.
Arvo Pärt
Wenn Bach Bienen gezuchtet hätte

Wenn Bach Bienen gezuchtet hätte

Speigel Im Speigel (clip)

Spiegel Im Spiegel

From Rainstorms and Rainbows (2008)
Full album here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow/sets/rainstorms-and-rainbows-2008/s-LKHNx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rainstorms and Rainbows (2008) by jakechudnow</a>
Most sounds made with Korg's DW8000

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWKlUT1MEXk


Rainstorms and Rainbows (I Am The Hero)

My version of Arvo Part's (Für Alina) done with NI Absynth.

Arvo Part- Für Alina

Capella Duriensis - 'Dia dos Museus' - no Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis

Arvo Pärt - Nunc Dimittis

From Glow in the Dark Treasure Hunt (2012)

Most sounds made with Korg's DW8000 

There are two images/memories in my head when I listen to and was making this song:

1. A documentary on assisted dying by Terry Pratchett: http://youtu.be/slZnfC-V1SY

2. Driving through the Mojave desert in Joshua Tree

Lions Tigers and Apes

09 - Rhapsody In Blue - Gershwin

01- Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 - Saint-Saens

05 - Piano Concerto in G Major - Ravel

Spiegel Im Speigel  (Arvo Pärt)

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel

My Absynth patch of Arvo Part's Pari Intervallo.

NI - Absynth patch Arvo Part- Pari Intervallo

My Dark Interpretation of Arvo parts Tabula Rasa.

Arvo Part : Tabula Rasa "Silentium" (Dark Rework)

My Absynth version of Brian Eno - An Ending Ascent. This was all done using Absynth's envelopes.

Brian Eno -  "An Ending (Ascent)"

Ambient piece using Native Instrumet's Absynth soft synth.

l'angelo

The Mad Rush by Philip Glass 
arranged with UVI Ircam Prepared Piano using bow, ebow, mallets and picked preparation

Philip Glass - The Mad Rush

Title: A Little Planet (CD+DVD)
Artist: okamotonoriaki 
Label: mü-nest 
Cat #: mnc013 
Release date: 24 Jan 2013 

Guest artists: cokiyu, Takumi Nishinoya 
Mastered by: Chihei Hatakeyama 
Art Direction by: The Simple Society (www.thesimplesociety.jp) 
Illustrations by: Izumi Matsuhashi 

(CD album comes with a bonus DVD-R containing 4 music videos) 

http://www.okamotonoriaki.com 
http://www.mu-nest.com 
info@mu-nest.com

Commuting

Recorded at Earthbeat Studios 1992.
Vocal samples are taken from Dead Can Dance - Dawn Of The Iconoclast and Circuit - Shelter Me. 


Arvo Part- Für Alina

anthony distefano