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Laura

Tom — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:10:23 +0000

It’s time for some jazz! Here’s me playing “Laura” (composed by David Raksin) on my Casio Privia PX-830 digital piano. It was adapted from the theme of the 1944 film “Laura” directed by Otto Preminger. Lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer. It has become a jazz standard with over four hundred known recordings. The best known versions are by Frank Sinatra, Woody Herman, Dick Haymes, Charlie Parker, J.J. Johnson and Julie London. I hope you like it!

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

Technical details: the video was recorded using a Kodak Zi8 pocket camcorder (at 720p), cut and H.264 reencoded at 4000 Kbps using MediaCoder. The audio was recorded (at 48 kHz / 24-bit) using Ableton Live Lite 7 while running the Casio PX-830s L/Mono Line Out to a Line 6 POD Studio GX and got FLAC encoded using MediaCoder. Video and audio were combined using MKV Toolnix.

Comptine d’un autre été: l’après midi

Tom — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:28:34 +0000

Here’s me playing “Comptine d’un autre été: l’après midi” (composed by Yann Tiersen) on my Casio Privia PX-830 digital piano. It is best known from the movie “Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain” (Amélie) directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. I hope you like it!

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

5-Second Films

Tom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:53 +0000

Every weekday 5-Second Films publishes a new (very) short film: 2 seconds of beginning titles, 5 seconds of film, 1 second of end titles. A great way to start your day with! Here’s my favorite, called “Late For Work”:

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Walking in the Air

Tom — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:09:59 +0000

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.

Technical details: the video was recorded using a Kodak Zi8 pocket camcorder (at 720p), cut and H.264 reencoded at 4000 Kbps using MeGUI. The audio was recorded (at 48 kHz / 24-bit) using Ableton Live Lite 7 while running the Casio PX-830’s L/Mono Line Out to a Line 6 POD Studio GX and got FLAC encoded using MediaCoder. Video and audio were combined using MKV Toolnix.

River Flows in You

Tom — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:15:44 +0000

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.

Technical details: the video was recorded using a Medion Life P42005 (MD86072) Digital Camera and H.264 encoded at 2 Mbps using MeGUI. The audio was recorded (at 48 kHz / 24-bit) using Ableton Live Lite 7 while running the Casio PX-830’s L/Mono Line Out to a Line 6 POD Studio GX and got FLAC encoded using MediaCoder. Video and audio were combined using MKV Toolnix.

Alma

Tom — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:00:18 +0000

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

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Down Below

Doro — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:09:50 +0000

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

The Brokenmusicbox

Doro — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:03:01 +0000

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…

CitySounds.fm

Tom — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:35:29 +0000

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!

Under My Skin – Gin Wigmore

Doro — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:12:03 +0000

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.