Name: Mr Funny by S. Andersen
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: This not a serious piece as such. I am just testing some new equipment.

My first original song, Disco Stars. The lyrics and melody are written by me and the drum track is created by Google Magenta. This is an open-source project combining Artificial Intelligence and music. The image depicted is also created by AI.
I wrote this song around November 2019 and it can also be found on my YouTube (Charlotte Hessels).

Disco Stars - Charlotte Hessels

Happy End ／ Ryuichi Sakamoto

Waves in Space

Recorded with iPhone15Pro
Piano: KAWAI K400

#solopiano #jazzpiano #iPhone15Pro #spring

it might as well be spring  Piano Cover

A guy at his ex's wedding. A song about unfinished love.

Wedding Song

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – The Gypsy Dance 
January 2025
Duration: 2:35
Listen to more music for the ballet: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-hunchback-for-notre-dame
Based on “Gypsy Fire” by Romane
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Hunchback of Notre Dame June 6th and 7th 2025 in Colorado.
For strings, accordion, guitar and percussion

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - The Gypsy Dance

Pop single with disco elements by Lisa Rogers 

Run To You

This is the 23rd track and a gentle and warm piano solo song featuring a nostalgic sound, included in '24 Piano Sketches' that is a new solo album from Yuki Murata, the Tokyo-based pianist/composer and member of the cinematic instrumental music band, Anoice, and its side projects, RiLF and Films.

As the name suggests, '24 Piano Sketches' includes 24 piano songs which Yuki Murata plays improvisations on her own grand and upright pianos. This long project is going to add 2 songs every month and ultimately 24 songs in one year, allowing the listeners to feel the changing of the season in real-time via the beautiful, warm, and sometimes melancholic piano sounds.

This time, she purposely selected a cassette tape recorder, a MiniDisc player, and an early generation of iPhone as the recording equipments for each song, unlike studio albums from her own bands such as Anoice. These retro and simplistic recording devices were able to capture not only a creaking noise coming from the piano and the environmental sounds outside the window, but also a noise occurred by cheap microphones, which make this album so impressive. Its nostalgic soundscape may remind her listeners of her first solo album 'Films' and second solo album 'Home'.

The photos taken by her bandmate of Anoice, Takahiro Kido, on his Polaroid camera every season, are adopted as the cover images of each single, and they will added together with the songs to the following BandCamp page every time a single is released.
https://riccolabel.bandcamp.com/album/24-piano-sketches

You should feel the changing of the seasons with the beautiful piano melodies.

24 Piano Sketches

BandCamp

reunion (Anoice / Yuki Murata '24 Piano Sketches')

A song written just after the death of my children's favourite grandma.
She lived in France and she was the greatest Beatles fan and greatest Grandmother ever. That's the reason for the Penny Lane reference in the song.
I remember being dumbfounded and staring at some of her jewelry... and at the same time listening to all her grandchildren playing in her beautiful garden...
Some of them were my kids, and I had no idea how to help them in their loss and sorrow.

My Sweet Jane

This not a serious piece as such. I am just testing some new equipment.

Mr Funny

LAMENT is for piano quintet and empty chair, dedicated to my dear friend, Laura Flax. Laura, the first female clarinetist of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and member of the Da Capo Chamber Players, was a fierce inspiration. I planned to meet up with her in NYC on a recent trip, but when I found out that she had passed, I was too numb to speak.

Like metal to a magnet, I was drawn into my studio and stared at my music notation software, unable to move. One lone, long note pushed through waves of grief. It came again, and again. I finally wrote it down but struggled. My familiar harmonic colors felt so shallow in light of my intense grief. I needed something deep. Suddenly I remembered the last time I heard Laura play. It was a Messiaen piece, which he wrote in a concentration camp. It then knew its octatonic mode brought the depth of color to my sound palette that I needed. 

Lament travels through undulations of numbness, anger, denial, and ends with a final surrender to acceptance. Though the empty chair represents my own friend's absence, performers are free to use the empty chair to represent any loss of their own. 

Laura, job well done.

Score available for perusal. Parts available at:
https://judithmarkovich.com

Lament

LAMENT for Piano Quintet and Empty Chair

I am a pianist and composer writing music for vocalists searching for a song, game- and film music. I compose pieces in all genres from  jazz, latin, fusion, prog-rock, electronic to classical and more. All my uploads are original compositions - written, performed & recorded by myself in my very basic home studio setup based on Studio One software and a Yamaha workstation.

Mr Funny

S. Andersen

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