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Here’s me playing “Walking in the Air” (composed by Howard Blake) on my Casio Privia PX-830 digital piano. This one is dedicated to Doro. The song was composed for the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs‘ 1978 children’s book The Snowman. I hope you like it!

High quality audio track of this video is available for download at SoundCloud. Read more

Here’s me playing “River Flows in You” (composed by Yiruma) on my Casio PX-830 digital piano. I hope you like it!

High quality audio track of this video is available for download at SoundCloud. Read more

Written and directed by Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas. Produced by Cecile Hokes.

At the Olympus website you can download this great song for free.

I’ve got a new favourite song: Time by The Brokenmusicbox.

I first came up against this song in a time lapse cover design video (Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo). Just a pity that they cut off the last seconds of the song…

Ever since Last.fm made the unfortunate decision to become a paid subscription service for all countries except in the US, UK and Germany, I’ve been on the lookout for a good alternative to get to some tunes from somewhere else and I’ve finally found exactly that!

CitySounds.fm lets you listen to the latest music from cities around the world. At the top are the most active cities and the list constantly changes as new music is being created. The music is being fetched from SoundCloud and the city photos are fetched from Flickr.

The music available through CitySounds.fm seems to be primarily dance music until now and I’m quite happy about that actually. Enjoy listening to the music!

Update (August, 22nd): There’s a new and improved version of CitySounds.fm online in which all cities now have their own page as well, you can register as a listener by tweeting a link to the city page and and cities within the same country are suggested to listen to. CitySounds.fm was already great and it just got better!

This is my favourite song at the moment. I could listen to it over and over again.

It was also used in a commercial for Air New Zealand. Read more

It’s spring, the sun is shining again and I suddenly couldn’t agree more with the (albeit very limited) lyrics of this song: “We should all be dancin’” (Ultra DJs – Dancin’). Instead I’m sitting inside behind my laptop, working… Read more

Microsoft created a video montage envisioning the technology of tomorrow. Watch it and look for examples of how current prototypes may evolve in the years ahead: most of the items shown in this movie already exist nowadays, but the question is, when will they be used in everyday life? Read more

GE’s Ecomagination website offers a pretty neat “Augmented Reality” advertisement gimmick in which what’s shown on your computer screen responds to how you’re holding a piece of paper in front of your webcam. Go ahead, print your own and enjoy your personal augmented reality experience as well! Note that you need a printer and webcam for this to work.

Check out the video clip below to get the idea: Read more