Results tagged “Radiohead” from PianoMorphosis

Talking to an internet start-up guy, it struck me: I need an intern.

There's a new CD -- Time Curve -- coming out very soon on Arabesque (my playing of music by Glass and Duckworth). It's not quite "classical," not "new age" (although that may be how Amazon.com and other internet sellers will niche it). Some people use the term "alternative classical" or "alt classical"...

From the statistics I have, the people who download my recordings also listen to Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Carl Craig, Aphex Twin, and yes, even to music by Mozart played by Radu Lupu. And that's why my intern is needed -- a flexible young musico-marketer-acrobat -- a sherpa who might help maneuver through this brave new world. Figure out how to expose the new recording to ALL the right people...

Charming though it may be, the review we used to covet in The Gramophone is far from enough. Ah, to be on Stereogum.com or Pitchfork.

Potential applicants, I'm posting on Craigslist.

Keyboard music has always been linked with transcribing: making sung, or strummed pieces (or gestures), into something fingers can play on keys. The earliest extant keyboard pieces are transcriptions (more properly "intabulations," because they are written using the little diagrams called tablature):

One of my former students is making solo piano versions of Detroit techno. I've made piano transcriptions of music from minimalist operas. Christopher O'Riley is getting attention for his piano arrangements of music by Radiohead and Elliott Smith.

So, I've decided to begin, as soon as possible, a new transcription project: the pianofication of the complete oeuvre of Brad Paisley...