Scores to this track can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNskWHKp_kE.

This piano piece is dedicated to all people that need to leave. Their homes, their loved ones, their lifes that they had so far. Because they see no future, because some regime presses them to go to war, because they have broken with their loved ones. All the best to you and may you find a new home!

Compositionwise: The piece is structured into 4 parts (starting @0:02, @0:45, @1:38 and @2:44). Each of the parts starts with a question-like motive built around Ninths. As with most of my pieces, I investigate applied perturbation theory also in this track by starting these 4 parts almost – but only almost – with the same notes and exploring, how initially tiny tweaks in the beginning of the parts evolve over time into distinctly different melodies, harmonics and moods.
Overall, the piece constantly oscillates between melancholic minor and consoling major harmonies and periods of relative calm interrupted by more restless forward driving parts. The transitions between the parts are made more seamless by ritardandos and by question-answer pairs such as e.g, @ 1:28 or @ 2:33. Most of the accompaignment in the left hand is in Vienna classic-like triad decompositions but for the climax of the track starting @ 2:02, the left hand switches to rock-piano-like octave jumps to increase the sense of emotional agitation. The track starts in A major and ends in Eb major which is said to be a warm and melancholic tonality. Tthe two keys are opposite each other (6 jumps away), so I guess, this is the maximum range of modulation possible to emphasize the sense of distance and leaving. 
The track can also be found on Spotify and on Youtube. Enjoy!

Leaving (Solo Piano)

View In The Future

Cinemagic (2016) Anthology CD3 Track 07

Original piano improvisation, music by Robbie

Improvisation_001

Improvisation 001

Jean Sibelius: Laulu ristilukista - Sången om korsspindeln - Das Lied von der Kreuzspinne. Op.27 No 4 (1898). Read & reproduced for piano by VV on the original score. Rec. worked out on a pair of modeled Petrof Mistral 284 grands, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, as well as the rec setup made by VV. - And the rec updated by VV Nov.10, 2024.
'Laulu Ristilukista' lyrics with one of the most legendary interpretations of this song (see the link):
"Tuol korpien kätkössä ruohikon
Ja paisteessa siel auringon
Käy lukki niin suuri ja musta kuin yö
Se saalista vaanii ja syö
Sadepäivä sen vangiksi..."
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/matti-lehtinen-laulu-ristilukista-lyrics.html 

Sången om korsspindeln:
Bak villande skog på en grönskande slätt,
där solskenet gassar så hett,
där sitter en spindel så svart och så stor
i gräset och stirrar och glor.
Ha
https://lyricstranslate.com/sv/jean-sibelius-sangen-om-korsspindeln-lyrics.html

Jean Sibelius Ristilukki. Sången om korsspindeln.

Jean Sibelius: Laulu ristilukista - Sången om korsspindeln  - Das Lied von  der Kreuzspinne

Still Pool At Sundown

Acceptance

a thousand kisses deep (gabriel faure) (piano cover)

raindrops

Colibri

Music composed and performed by Rachel Nusbaumer
Piano part composed and performed by Antonio La Scalia (https://soundcloud.com/antoniolascalia)

Listen to the original version : https://soundcloud.com/rachel-nusbaumer/equilibrium

Equilibrium (piano by Antonio La Scalia)

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Livestream Improvisation Tue 20:00-21:00 GMT+2
https://www.youtube.com/@robbie-de-groot

(Short version Bio*)
Robbie's first encounter with music was at the age of 6 when one of his aunts gave him a bugle to play on. Few months after Robbie was alowed to rehearse with the local fanfare and kept playing the bugle for 1 year and the baritone 1 year after that. After getting his 'A' diploma, Robbie then returned the lent baritone and said: "Now I have enough" and stopped playing a brass instrument. Yet, a few years later, when he was 11, he found a keyboard on the attic and played it fondly. When his parents could not hold out much longer to hear the same tune over and over (pippy longstockings), his mother then decided Robbie needed 
piano lessons and brought him to a teacher in Groningen: 'Jan Meiborg'.

Quickly became clear that Robbie enjoyed this much and took lessons for 7 years. Here he learned much about improvisation in blues and learned to get more in touch with the piano in general. The last study was on a piece of Franz Liszt: 'Liebestraum no.3'. Jan dared a bet: "If you can play this piece well within 4 weeks, I'll buy you a chocolate cake." So the challenge was accepted. Yet... Robbie was young and became more busy with other things than the piano and Robbie knew he was going to fail.

Thus, with a loss, yet with no side of the bargain, Robbie bought a chocolate cake himself for Jan, and without any words, the both of us knew that this would be the last time of the study. 

Which became more clear the coming year. Robbie did not even touch a piano for over a year and was hanging around with his friends more often. Yet after that specific year, he came home to his parents house... Looked at the piano... Thought to himself: "Could I?... then... Should I?" and began improvising with no one else in the room. Finally he accepted that this had to be his main course. 

** Read the full story on artificialis.nl ** (available in lots of languages but dutch is the main language and the rest is probably pretty poorly translated by machine translation)

Improvisation 001

Robbie de Groot