My first vinyl, completely inspired by Nature
A sun vinyl and a moon vinyl, 4 seasons. 
I am so excited to share this with the world.

Honour Life - Lotte Walda

Expanded Version but work in progress. Please feel free to leave a comment as feedback is greatly appreciated.

Updated with a cleaner mix 231.05.2025

All That Came Before

As the title mentions, this piece was composed on impulse.....

Art picture is by randy-lisciarelli on unsplash....

l'Impulsion

Composition and Sampling collage by Synline.


Run for Your Life

Algebraille

This is a track from my album TALES OF A NOMAD, a collection of impressions from decades of living a nomadic life for professional reasons.

'78, The Woods, And The Lake

Basic track mix - straight off my Zoom R24. Leaving it alone for a while..(earworm!) 
Synth bass with multi-clarinet riffs / alto flutes/oboe sections with tenor sax on bass pedal. Flute solos with synth middle sections.
Picture by Cathy Alexandre (c/o Pinterest)

RED ADMIRAL [CLA158M2 early mix]

Politicians argue for glory whilst the innocent suffer

Shadows of war .mp3

listen

Tempo 78 BPM

https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein

Lyrics

A weight from Wait
Good Tape to Tape
2012 clouds sound
Eve of my birthday mate
Give us that powerful prose
Best economy of line
In name, God has given you
Loads more time
More Gifts for us
Skimmed stone of truth
A rock like love
Singing forever youth

No imaginary friends
Friend in reality trends
Power from us to delay an end
Attraction of time please send

Old Tape to Tape
Good friends reminiss
Lift weight from weight
Let's keep this true Earth bliss
To termite time
Our relevance - 100 years
We need you more
Let's burn our fears
Many more rhymes
Mellifluous signs
June made mozart effect
More gift of God life line

This song is for my wonderful SoundCloud friend Jonathon, a fabulous artist and song writer who really does lay it all bare in art and I have infinite respect for people that do that. I believe it empowers others on levels we may never truly be able to appreciate but largely I suppose it offers solidarity for whoever wants it gaining relevance and alternate perspective on emotion, one of the most difficult things to describe, accept and understand in ourselves.

Power gone here in the country side. Somehow my phone hung onto a phone signal to upload this. The song image is my buddies wilded garden with a beehive in the middle and the words soft in the foreground.

To life

My meaning of life which got adjusted slightly today...

Yesterdays version was, 'Love others as you learn to love yourself' but my old intention only ever factored humans into that so...

'Love life as you learn to love yourself' I think gets closer fur moi...

For me personally I find it easier to deliver love to others without judgement then myself although I think I'm improving all the time at the latter



Friend in Reality (Raw)

Paganini - Liszt: La Chasse. Ferruccio Busoni 1915 on Duo-Art 5671.
Recorded from digitized original reproducing piano roll Dec 1, 2018 by VViljanen.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Ferruccio Busoni in 1913
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
ETUDE (La Chasse), No. 5 in E from "Grandes Etudes de Paganini" (transcribed by Liszt)
Roll Number: 5671, 5671-6
Composer/Creator: Paganini
Pianist: Busoni
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: July, 1915
Category: classical
Original Price: $3.50 (Price after 1922
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Franz Liszt: 'La Chasse'- Grandes Etudes de Paganini No 5. Ferruccio Busoni 1915 on Duo-Art

My warmest thanks to everyone stopping by for listening to my  'REVIEW   OF THE PAST TIME PIANISTS' INTERPRETATIONS ON THE HISTORICAL PIANO ROLLS, and also to a minor LIST of MY MY OWN RENDITIONS, all of the latter representing a variety of piano music & some pipe-organ classics, - and  TO THE Growing LISTS OF (just lately done and reproduced)  TRANSCRIPTIONS OF VARIOUS CHAMBER MUSIC CLASSICAL PEARLS FOR TWO PIANOS.
A HEADSET IS RECOMMENDED for optimal sound experience!
This kind of 'touching' on these old pre-sound-rec. era works by the great performers of the past, and giving my sound to these old 'punch rolls',  makes me feel  deep humbleness, .and I wish that this modest attempt to bring these  performances alive will satisfy you listening to them!
To introduce myself...
I am a Finnish M.D., PhD. and Hand Surgeon (now retired), previously when young with 10 years of professionally orientated piano studies at Turku Conservatory in 1965-1975, partly  along with medical University studies. 
The digital sound techniques have become very familiar to me already from 1980's along with my university research work  
and my musical activities.
As continuation to my musical and professional experience, I have, during the last few years of my retirement, adopted a music historical challenge
to bring the past time major and minor pianists, prior to sound-recording era, onto the same 'start line' with the present pianists, by making their presentations, played onto 'punch rolls' i.e. piano rolls, audible with modern digital techniques. This wouldn't be possible without the pioneering  efforts of Richard Stibbons, Wayne Stahnke, Terry Smythe, Warren Trachtman, Spencer Chase, and others, who developed the optical digitizing techniques of the piano rolls, and digitized them.

The main part of my recordings here in SC consists of selection recorded by me from optically digitized piano-rolls** (from 1910's on or earlier, classical and 'vintage era'). These recordings of mine are not and will not be commercially unavailable. - The rolls were first optically scanned and converted into a digital form by diverse operators** (see also to the info of each piece). The pieces here were partly (minor part) picked from various open net sources, publicly available, but mainly from the huge archive (n=ca.5000) of digitized copies copies of the original reproducing piano rolls, made available to me by one of the pioneers of roll digitizing tehchniques (willing to keep anonymous), and then recorded from this archive mainly with virtual grand piano (called by me 'Bluethner Model One') modified/re-designed by me, as well as the rec settings. 
Also a minor selection of my own renditions among my records can be found here, included on my playlist 'Bach Goes Virtual', the name of the list telling something about the techniques used for getting the end result... The list includes various organ works by J.S.Bach and others, and also a few piano renditions of mine. Then there are included also various pieces which have been in my repertoire, but here played mainly by the  'guest' great players of the past (before the sound recording era).
MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO THE NOBLE DONOR  OF THIS INVALUABLE PIANO ROLL MATERIAL FOR MY USE!!!
My Sincere Thanks also to The Player Piano Group, UK, for providing me their permission to use the information about the piano rolls collected and provided on their web page ( https://rolls.playerpianogroup.org.uk ),  and for simplifying my short historical presentations of these renditions on their re-publication here!
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO EVERYONE  OF YOU FOR LISTENING, AND FOR YOUR 'LIKES' & COMMENTS !
YOUR LISTENING & FEEDBACK IS TRULY APPRECIATED..!!.
Use of good headphones or speakers will make your music experience more enjoyable!
Best wishes, all the best
Veikko
These recordings are not commercially available, and ANY KIND OF THEIR COMMERCIAL USE IS PROHIBITED.

Franz Liszt: 'La Chasse'- Grandes Etudes de Paganini No 5. Ferruccio Busoni 1915 on Duo-Art

Veikko Viljanen

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