Meditative keyboard artists from around the world, esp. Europe, East Asia and North America. Free piano improvs and similar sonic explorations for quiet reflection, study, or for a more organic ambient experience.

conscious keys

Piano solo, free improvisation.

Listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7zR2VQLs5XkOqo0SFzUcN6?si=4eaad4b215274acc

Listen on Spotify

Proximity

Forest Flight

Piano Improvisation July 29 2022

There are (5) Tinkering in The Keys. Bear with me as I explain. When I sit on my stool to play my piano, at nearly a standing position, usually the first thing I do is warm up, like a dancer has to stretch and warm up before they dance. I play a series of exercises to coordinate my hands from one end of the keyboard to the other, playing in every key, major and relative minor. My fingers are nimble and can play fast but what is the point of doing that. It is not my style. To prove what? I'm not trying to impress anyone with great technic. What is the point of the music being created? The point is for you to hear the story I'm telling and making it your own. Improvising the music I make, which is different from those who read and memorize music. ANYONE can learn how to read music. Not everyone can create music. It is not about how fast I can play but how much emotion I can create inside, for myself, playing my piano from the inside out, not striking the keys on the outside to make sound. It is about the vibration on the tones. I play for me. I let you listen.

These 5 pieces were all created inside 30 minutes. No redos, no fixes. They are clearly my style of playing cultivated over 60 years, and I'm not done yet. I usually play for an hour or two non-stop but I cut my playing this time into five pieces because no one will listen non-stop for that long. Most of it is played with my eyes closed, listening, knowing my keyboard that well. Feeling for chords that say what I feel. I don't care if I make mistakes. It's all part of the music. I don't practice music over and over until it's perfect. Life isn't perfect.

I'm not uploading the music in order but they will later be put in a playlist. My music is best listened to in the dark, eyes closed and go to sleep. In the next music descriptions I will explain what I think about improvised music and the players who play it, and what is happening to music in today's generation.

Tinkering on The Keys #5

This came out of a piece I'd been developing over a couple of weeks, searching for variations around a central theme on felt piano. After a couple of less than successful attempts at developing the track with a fixed bpm I ended up freestyling it as an improv with some subtle drones from Spitfire labs Foghorn, a unique and free library of sounds derived from recordings of the Sumburgh head Foghorn on Shetland. 
One of the options in the labs library is a selection of engine room noises from the two diesel engines that power the foghorn, I wondered whether the engine room could stand in for percussion on the track and here is the result. Thanks for taking time out to check it out.

the engine room

Little evening improvisation on Rhodes piano

Evening Outro

An edited free piano improv. An intermezzo between something that was and something that might have been, if only.

Once Upon A Forgotten Time

Sketch In Black And Gray

A solo piano piece inspired by a photo of a gray sky I took. The piano is from the #Casio PX-S3100 Stage Piano. I recorded it using the Audio Recorder feature; the WAV file was recorded to a USB thumb drive. I imported the WAV into #SteinbergMedia #Cubase, and edited it, added effects and mastered it.

© 2023 Music and art work. Roger Hooper Music

Olde Sky

OLDE SKY

*** Please experience New Album Information: 23rd selection album ***

Today's music video with beautiful anime girl with her face animations here.. 
https://youtu.be/ESiIEoMpIMc

#3364: Mar. 1, 2023: Came the birch tree's gentle voice again (this title is from "The Tales of Miyazawa Kenji") 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3364(74.2%) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.

######## NEW 23rd SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Golden Light" - the 23rd selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

Youtube: Full(20 songs, 50 minutes) and Free 4K Video with Super Beautiful Motion Graphics of Artgrid
https://youtu.be/3Gc813k8eec

Youtube: Digest of "Golden Light" music video. 12 minutes in 4K
https://youtu.be/GB7oBTB0yOo

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/6kJ3Xoy0jSjx1AmUNyKu6T

apple music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/golden-light-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-volume-23/1662304120

amazon music
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BRJ258Z7?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

Line Music
https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002b2e80a

AWA
https://s.awa.fm/album/948948aecf74cfc9ee19

Other Every music streaming services in the world
https://linkco.re/QebcGtzF?lang=en

Came The Birch Tree's Gentle Voice Again - #3364 By Chair House 03012023

*** Please experience New Album Information: 23rd selection album ***

Today's music video with beautiful anime girl with her face animations here.. 
https://youtu.be/vtmWj0ItFvk

#3369: Mar. 6, 2023: That evening looking out at the three-day moon in the west (this title is from "The Tales of Miyazawa Kenji") 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3369(74.3%) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.

######## NEW 23rd SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Golden Light" - the 23rd selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

Youtube: Full(20 songs, 50 minutes) and Free 4K Video with Super Beautiful Motion Graphics of Artgrid
https://youtu.be/3Gc813k8eec

Youtube: Digest of "Golden Light" music video. 12 minutes in 4K
https://youtu.be/GB7oBTB0yOo

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/6kJ3Xoy0jSjx1AmUNyKu6T

apple music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/golden-light-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-volume-23/1662304120

amazon music
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BRJ258Z7?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

Line Music
https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002b2e80a

AWA
https://s.awa.fm/album/948948aecf74cfc9ee19

Other Every music streaming services in the world
https://linkco.re/QebcGtzF?lang=en

And I Love Going To The Forest - #3369 By Chair House 03062023

*** Please experience New Album Information: 23rd selection album ***

Today's music video with beautiful anime girl with her face animations here.. 
https://youtu.be/qSHu70pc-sQ

#3370: Mar. 7, 2023: They were resting in the shade of a bodhi tree (this title is from "The Tales of Miyazawa Kenji") 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3370(74.3%) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.

######## NEW 23rd SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Golden Light" - the 23rd selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

Youtube: Full(20 songs, 50 minutes) and Free 4K Video with Super Beautiful Motion Graphics of Artgrid
https://youtu.be/3Gc813k8eec

Youtube: Digest of "Golden Light" music video. 12 minutes in 4K
https://youtu.be/GB7oBTB0yOo

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/6kJ3Xoy0jSjx1AmUNyKu6T

apple music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/golden-light-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-volume-23/1662304120

amazon music
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BRJ258Z7?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

Line Music
https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002b2e80a

AWA
https://s.awa.fm/album/948948aecf74cfc9ee19

Other Every music streaming services in the world
https://linkco.re/QebcGtzF?lang=en

They Were Resting In The Shade Of A Bodhi Tree - #3370 By Chair House 03072023

A free piano improv on a mild evening in early March 2023. I'm enjoying the Kawai DG30 -- recording these little pieces and sharing them here is a bit like an audio journal. Back when I did a lot of ice fishing, we talked about 'first ice'. Usually in December some cold air would settle in under high pressure and so the first ice of the year would be clear and the sun shining through it would spark a period of heightened macroinvertebrate activity and hence good fishing. I took this photo a few days ago on a small woodland pond. It was a mild March day, and noticed the ice looked similar, only in this case it's nearly finished for the year - final ice. It's an ambiguous time of year, I hope some of that feeling comes through in the gentle tension of this bit of music.

Final Ice

Debut EP here including 'Amore' : https://ampl.ink/bKlmm

Amore (Debut EP available now on Spotify / iTunes)

Piano Improv

Little cinematic improvised piece at piano.
Evening.

Piccolo pezzo cinematico improvvisato al piano. Sera.

Piano tuned at 432Hz.

Intersections

An improvised peaceful piano music track.  Constant, steady movement forward.

Constant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qef8l2MRnGA

Illustration by Adam Riches - @adamrichesart

piano improv II

Aeolian piano

kyoto piece

kyoto piece - Preview

2023 - For the past few months I've been working with Public Resource, a California based non-profit to release an extensive collection of older music for free use. In addition to audio, we'll be releasing the music as MIDI and musicxml. Last week we started posting a new featured piece every week on the Public Resource Soundcloud page (@PublicResource). Follow there, or look for frequent reposts here. It'll include classical music, pop music before 1927, ragtime, folk songs, and more. The main collection will be at the Internet Archive, and will be called the "Internet Jukebox". I'll post more about it as it grows.

conscious keys

MLucas