The live recordings are now online. Just a couple of mikes in the room. When I was there, I didn’t realize just how good and subtle Véronique Piller’s piano playing actually was.
Catégorie : Making Music
La pêche à la baleine: The music
Following last week’s world premiere, the working demos are online, and hopefully, concert recordings will follow…
J+2
Well, the two concerts in Lausanne happened. The venue was very nice. People came both nights. I probably had as much stage-fright as if I had actually been on stage. I have a hard time being objective about the quality of the performance, but it was definitely better than OK. My bro certainly pulled it…
J-1…
AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow
Slashdot | AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow « The Music Industry uses a product called HSS (Hit Song Science) made by Spain’s Polyphonic HMI. According to The Guardian « while no one’s talking about it, it seems that the whole record industry is already using AI to choose hits. From unsigned acts dreaming in their…
Surprise
Scenario #1: You’re listening to a song you’ve never heard before, by someone you don’t know. It’s a nice song. Nice melody, nice lyrics, nice arrangement, nice voice. You hope the chorus and bridge won’t spoil the broth. They don’t. They are what you hoped they would be. A nice, comforting fit with the opening…
La pêche à la baleine: The Story
My brother, Benjamin Knobil, is an actor and theater author/director, who works mainly in Switzerland. A couple of months back, he called me to say that he was going to be able to fulfill a long-standing fantasy of his, namely, to sing on-stage. He was invited by a club-owner to sing about the Mediterranean (the…
Whale fishing and other humid songs
First hint…
I’m not the most prolific writer, and I prefer verse to prose, but I really have been very busy lately. So here is the first hint (in frog, sorry) of what I have been up to on the creative front. I’ll tell you more as soon as my fingertips heal from too much guitar playing.
Vintage Vince
Watch out! Here comes Vintage Vince, over thirty songs (culled from dozens more!) of frighteningly crude, 4-track, pre-midi, prehestoric music. For the truly adventurous who can see (and hear) beyond the surface of things.