I did happen to find some recordings of a couple of my more recent tunes on a flash card I brought with me. These were not intended for public consumption, but somehow not having decent equipment here sort of makes me feel like I have an excuse not to worry so much about quality. So consider this to be a special Limited Edition blog post featuring rare exclusive home demos. Or something. Neither piece has a name, I've run out of names.
This first piece is one I tried to record with the intention of sharing it, but I made too many mistakes and rushed through it too much. Somehow I must have forgotten to delete the file. I sent it to my brother Chris the other day and he edited some of the more glaring mistakes out... but it's still too rushed, and has mistakes he couldn't take out including painfully wrong notes towards the end, and is a bit chopped there where he had to do some major surgery.
The final chord in the piece was performed by my cat Tony jumping on the keys.
This second recording was never even an attempt at something presentable. When I compose a piece I sometimes do a quick recording of it through the little built-in mics in my eeepc. Otherwise I run the risk of walking away and forgetting it. This one was done that way, not with my normal recording setup. As a result the sound quality is very poor, very noisy. Think old worn 78. Also there are many mistakes, none edited out - and since this was my first time successfully playing some harder parts, it's still very mechanical. Not comfortable enough to be able to play with emotion.
That's it for now. I ordered a new piano, so I'll try to record more soon, and be less concerned about quality and just get them posted. It doesn't matter much anyway, it's just between us friends.
If you want to hear my other compositions, click the tag "my compositions" in the tag cloud to the left, or click here.
