The wonderful Anna Phoebe remixed my track Look Up.  @pianodayofficial

Look Up Re Imagined

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Silk Road Gensou

Solitary Journey is about the roads we take alone—whether it’s actual solo travel or the quiet, personal moments that shape who we are. Making this was a deeply personal process, and I hope it speaks to you in your own way.

Solitary Journey

Solo Kurzweil Piano.  Created in Real-Time at my  home studio.

Photo by Greg Carr, my brother.

Year of Music: November 13, 2025

Improvisation for Piano Day 2016 by Michael Ford. #PianoDay
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Rainy Daydream

Graham Reynolds loves to explore narrative in his work. This tendency makes him a natural fit for the film, theater and dance work that form one of the cores to his composing career. In fusing a loose concerto format with the story of Charles Babbage and his invention the difference engine, Reynolds' composing voice finds itself in a work that is intense and driving, beautiful and intimate, personally expressive and broadly accessible all at the same time. Developed over a course of years, the initial ideas for each movement were introduced and inspired separately before being woven into this one piece.

The musical onslaught of the opening movement came to Reynolds during a lecture by LB Deyo on Babbage and his work, inspired by the ferocious pace of both Babbage's thinking and the calculating speed of his invention. The fourth movement was developed in a very different form for the Rude Mechs play "The Method Gun", now touring the country. The fifth movement started as a solo piano piece, an Austin Museum of Art commission, in response to the work of Sol Lewitt. Reynolds joins other alt-classical voices in a 21st century approach that is no longer in rebellion against tonality and melody, nor desperate to prove their validity through focus on a "unique" extended technique, while folding 20th century ideas from clusters to modal harmonies to polyrhythms into a broad vocabulary.

The completed concerto "The Difference Engine" premiered on February 6th, 2010 with a 35-piece string orchestra in a Golden Hornet Project performance at Ballet Austin’s Austin Ventures Studio Theater. Soloists Leah Zeger on violin, Jonathan Dexter on cello, and the composer himself on piano fronted the debut, with parts written specifically for their skill set and personal voices. Those voices were then captured for this CD. Not fully realized in his lifetime, the difference engine was the masterwork of 19th century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage, an attempt to create the world's first computer. A remix of each movement forms the album's second half with contributions from DJ Spooky, Octopus Project, Grammy-nominated producer Adrian Quesada of Grupo Fantasma, Golden Hornet Project's Peter Stopschinski, and finally one from the composer himself.

04 Movement IV  Late at Night The Astronomer

That's a piano piece totally improvised, I just sat on the piano and play what spontaneously came out. No sheet music, preparation, or forethought. Just spontaneous composition, in one take. No edit. This is why you may hear some "mistakes" but as Thelonious Monk said: “The piano ain't got no wrong notes.” ;-)
I made it as part of the Piano Journal experimentation, a project created by Jason Dzamba: www.thepianojournal.com

Impromptus Vol. 1

Impromptu n°III / FREE Download (Total improvisation, no edit)

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Leafs' Dance

Gian Marco asked me to record this lovely Berceuse for him - I am thrilled to interpret this gorgeous piece!

Gian Marco La Serra "Song Without Words: Berceuse #2" - Performed by Danaë Vlasse

Gavottes 1 et 2, extraites de la 6ème Suite anglaise de J-S. Bach BWV.811, enregistrées lors de mon premier récital de doctorat, le 13 mai 2013, à la salle Claude Champagne de l'Université de Montréal.

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