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Acapella, with reverb/EQ/mixing. No words this time. Unless you count “bow”, “oo”, and “hey”, that is.

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted a solo piano recording. As per usual, I made this up as I went along.

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A short theme from the Wizard of Oz, sung a cappella in a very weird style. I thought of this basic idea while walking across campus this afternoon, and decided I had time to record it for your listening pleasure(?).

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“Avantish” - as in “avant garde.” Ish.

This is my first recording to use the Garritan Steinway VST plugin (which I managed to run on Ubuntu Studio) - with the exception of a little test showcase, below.

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Some pointless piano noodling, fading back and forth between my K2000VP’s idea of a piano and the new Garritan Steinway sampler I had just bought.

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“The Little Drummer Boy.” It’s a nice a cappella version with some weird vaguely blues-inspired delayed melody over it. I’m not really sure what I was thinking.

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Piano and singing at the same time. Song is “Nature Boy.”

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“Simple Gifts” - rendered simply, with voice and ukelele.

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Latin guitar/percussion/vocal vamping. Not actually very authentically Latin at all. Whatever. :D

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A solo piano piece, maybe a little influenced by Jason Robert Brown.

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“Carnelians,” a piece written by sci-fi author Catherine Asaro as part of her Diamond Star project, was arranged by me as above (all K2000VP-synthesized instruments). She wound up re-recording it in an actual studio, but based on some of the ideas I introduced here. (I like my version better, but I’m obviously biased. :D)

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The famous MIT rap: “Yo, it’s me, I’m David A D…”

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“Jazzy.” Sequenced and synthesized on K2000VP. It’s old.

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One of my oldest compositions, sequenced and synthesized for orchestra on my trusty K2000VP.