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Created by Gabriel Ness: "I’ve always loved the stark, fragile atmosphere of winter, and this year I was lucky enough to have several days of heavy snow in Leeds, UK. My goal for this instrument was to capture this atmosphere, using my field recordings of the snowfall in various locations in Leeds. The instrument comprises of pads and sound effects designed from my recordings. It also includes my not so virtuosic violin playing to add more depth to the main instrument. I’ve separated the sounds I’ve used into different combinations for ease of use. This is my first contribution to the Pianobook community, and hopefully, there will be many more. Happy composing!"

Download it for free here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/snow/

Snow

A selection of 10 tracks submitted in April 2021.

Pianobook instruments used:

Track 01 - Claustrophobic piano + Southsea Glimmer
Track 02 - Midnight Upright
Track 03 - Claustrophobic Piano
Track 04 - Midnight Upright
Track 05 - Claustrophobic piano
Track 06 - Columbia 1
Track 07 - Snow
Track 08 - The Swarmitar
Track 09 - Claustrophobic Piano
Track 10 – AB Natural Kalimba

Download all these instruments and many more absolutely free at www.pianobook.co.uk

Monthly Highlights - April 2021

breeze

A short demo created for my first sample library, 'Snow'.

The library comprises of various pads and sound effects created from a selection of field recordings I took during a snowy period in Leeds, UK earlier this year. My not so virtuosic violin playing also features in this library to capture the fragile, frozen landscapes of Leeds which inspired me.

© Gabriel Ness Music 2021
© Gabriel Ness Sampling 2021

Snow - Pianobook Demo

Sloppy Piano Waltz

This is a demo featuring Christian Henson's Claustrophobia Piano for Pianobook. What a delight - such an intimate sound! Also features Southsea Glimmer by Jacob Maloney providing some low end and a few LABS instruments for good measure. Fairly rough production but you get the point. Check out PianoBook!

This is the finished version: https://soundcloud.com/chrislever/tog

Sheet Music: https://www.chrislever.com/product/tog-piano-sheet-music/

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Tog - Claustrophobic Piano - Pianobook

This track is fully composed using the "Midnight Upright" library both available on Nami Audio and Pianobook websites.

www.namiaudio.com
www.pianobook.co.uk

Midnight Frozen

Aurora

Ethereal Peak (Remote Violin (nano), Freshwater Bay & Snow Demo)

Demo track using only the Virtual Instrument "Snow" from Pianobook.

Instrument details:
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/snow/

Spring Snow

These tracks were created as part of the Pianobook project.

Curated by one of the founders of SPITFIRE AUDIO, Pianobook is a collective sample project that aims to bring together a community of like-minded music makers to talk about their stories through the pianos they use, admire and are inspired by.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved, and to download these (and many more) FREE sounds, visit
www.pianobook.co.uk.

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A track made primarily using Midnight Upright from Pianobook, developed by Nami Audio.

Get it here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/midnight-upright/

Other instruments used:
- Tina Guo vol. 2 legato cello
- Native Instruments Arkhis
- Sonuscore The Orchestra

Mind Prison - Midnight Upright demo

This is a live unedited performance of my recent piece for a felt piano, performed on a "Claustrophobic Piano" library created by Christian Henson for Pianobook. Original photo by Luca Discenza at Unsplash, edited by me.

Clockwise (live unedited)

This track is made using Pianobook's free sample instrument snow.
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/snow/

check it out!

also using other pianobook's
confinement celeste
spitfire labs
tundra atmos
spitfire
alternative solo strings (i really like alternative solo strings)
albion tundra

powder

Featuring pianobook's acoustic unicorn series skimmer glass alongside claustrophobic piano

also rises (demo)

A calm minimalistic new age piece composed while exploring some lo-fi-sounding instruments available at https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ Featured instruments: "Autumn Piano", "Midnight Upright", "Lullaby" and "One After 969". Cover photo by John Towner at Unsplash

Waves

Fahmi Mursyid - Lautan

Pre-order Selected Early Keyboard Works at blankforms.org/publications/

Selected Early Keyboard Works is the first in a series of planned archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer, philosopher, poet, mathematician, and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix, co-released by Blank Forms Editions and Empty Editions. It comes hot on the heels of Traversée Du Fantasme at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, Hennix’s first solo museum exhibition in over 40 years, and will coincide with both Blank Forms’ publication of Poësy Matters and Other Matters, a two-volume collection of her writing, and the closing of Thresholds of Perception, a retrospective archival show of Hennix’s visual work at The Empty Gallery in Hong Kong. The record also marks the first time Hennix’s own music has been given a full-length vinyl issue.

In 1976 Catherine Christer Hennix’s just intonation live-electronic ensemble The Deontic Miracle performed Hennix’s orig- inal compositions, alongside works by La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Terry Jennings, as part of Brouwer’s Lattice at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Culled from rehearsal tapes recorded during the 10-day Dream Music Festival, Selected Early Keyboard Works features three pieces of minimal music, performed by Hennix on tunable electric keyboards. “Mode nouvelle des modalités,” for well-tuned just intonation Fender Rhodes and sine wave drone, is a consummate expression of Hennix’s formative years, a probing meditation giving the mercurial quality of early electronic music an instrumental life replete with the dexterity of Cecil Taylor and shades of Paul Bley’s synthesized reveries. “Equal Temperament Fender Mix,” performed on the same Rhodes but in twelve-tone equal temperament tuning, employs a tape delay system not unlike that used famously by Terry Riley, here towards more sombre, hallucinatory means. Hennix is joined by Hans Isgren for the collection’s centerpiece, “The Well-Tuned Marimba,” for well-tuned Yamaha, sheng, sine wave, and live electronics. Using the same approach and just intonation keyboard featured on Hennix’s The Electric Harpsichord, but with marimba in place of harpsichord stops, the piece is an undulating marvel of lysergic drone, equally deserving of its companion’s status as “THE obscure masterpiece of the days of the early American minimalism”. Now accessible for the first time, these recordings only begin to fill gaps of silence from a figure whose work has until recently remained flickering at the margins of some of the most enduring cultural developments of the 20th century.

Catherine Christer Hennix (b. 1948) started her creative career playing drums with her older brother Peter growing up in Sweden where she saw jazz luminaries such as John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Dexter Gordon, Archie Shepp, and Cecil Taylor perform at the Golden Circle. Directly after high school, Hennix went to work at Stockholm’s pioneering Elektronmusikstu- dion (EMS), where she helped develop early synthesizer and tape music. After traveling to New York In 1968, she met Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles and developed fruitful collaborative relationships with many composers in the bur- geoning American avant-garde, including, most significantly, Henry Flynt and La Monte Young. Young introduced Hennix to Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath, and she would later study intensively under him. While Hennix continued to make music performing alongside Arthur Russell, Marc Johnson, Henry Flynt, and Arthur Rhames, she also served as a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at SUNY New Paltz and as a visiting Professor of Logic (at Marvin Minsky’s invita- tion) at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In recent years Hennix has led the just-intonation ensemble the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. She currently resides in Berlin, Germany, where she is active as a composer and writer. A two-volume collection of her writing is forthcoming from Blank Forms.

Catherine Christer Hennix - Mode Nouvelle Des Modalités II (excerpt)

The dawn chorus recorded in the heart of Cerisy Forest in Normandy. Amongst the birdsong, we hear Wren, Robin, Chif Chaf, Common Chaffinch, Blackbird and Common Redstart.

Recorded 03.05.19
Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040 (ORTF)

Dawn Chorus - Cerisy Forest, Normandy, France

A gentle soundscape of crickets singing late in the evening as summer rain falls on the surrounding vegetation. Recorded along an abandoned railway track in Bad Boll, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Recorded 28.07.2019
Sound Devices Mix Pre 6
2 x DPA 4060

Cricket Chorus With Gentle Rain - Bad Boll, Germany

Marco Lucchi : piano and tape


playing with "Tiquience" by Boson Spin
https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/tiquience

1 agosto 2019


tombo-tsuri
Kyo wa doko made
itta yara

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/07/31/naviarhaiku291-my-little-dragonfly-hunter/

Boson Spin & Marco Lucchi - Tombo Tsuri (Naviar Haiku # 291)

This track was created as part of the pianobook project using it's free 'Dictaphone Loop Synth' as well as Spitfire Audio's LABS Soft Piano.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved and to download the 'Dictaphone Loop Synth' and many more free pianos visit

www.pianobook.co.uk

Messages in Memories

Demo for the Niue patch Hit 1. Niue is a sample library with atmospheric and inspiring sounds all based on wine glass recordings.
Read the story and get the library for free on www.pianobook.co.uk/library/niue/

Niue Hit 1 Demo

Technically just another study/improv for polyphonic arpeggiators (No 13), however as it reminded me harmonically very much of the great Penguin Cafe I decided to quickly sketch some string parts on top reminiscent of said group.

Using the following Instruments:
The Emperor and King (Chords - Panned Left)
College Kemble (Arpeggios - Panned Right)
Spitfire British Drama Toolkit (Viola)
Spitfire Aperture Strings (Flaut Ens)

To find out more about the Pianobook project, how you can get involved and to download 'The Emperor and King' and 'College Kemble' as well as many more free pianos please visit:

www.pianobook.co.uk

For further information and updates please visit:

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh…jA7uvVnIDayerm1zl

Study for Arpeggiating Penguins - College Kemble & The Emperor and King

British writer Gabriel Ness is the composer of multiple award-winning feature films, short films and animations. He has contributed to numerous albums on Pretty Decent Music and Ninja Tune Production Music, employing a skilful approach to orchestral and cinematic production through his experience handling live symphonic performances.

In addition to cinematic composition, Gabriel collaborates with commercial artists including electro-acoustic producer Jonny Martyr (aka Field Waves) and power-production duo NOISE NETWORK.

Don't hesitate to contact me regarding any collaborations or commissions.